Mazo de la Roche (January 15, 1879 – July 12, 1961), born Mazo Louise Roche in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, was the author of the Jalna novels, one of the most popular series of books of her time. Her books became best-sellers and she wrote 16 novels in the series known as the Jalna series or the Whiteoak Chronicles. The series tells the story of one hundred years of the Whiteoak family covering from 1854 to 1954. The novels were not written in sequential order, however, and each can be read as an independent story. The Jalna series has sold more than eleven million copies in 193 English and 92 foreign editions. In 1935, the film Jalna, based on the novel, was released by RKO Radio Pictures and, in 1972, a CBC television series was produced based on the series.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Explorers of the Dawn (1922)
Possession (1923)
Low Life: A Comedy in One Act (play, 1925)
Delight (1926)
Come True (1927)
Jalna series (in narrative order)
Building of Jalna, (1944)
Morning at Jalna, (1960)
Mary Wakefield, (1949)
Young Renny, (1935)
Whiteoak Heritage, (1940)
Whiteoak Brothers, (1953)
Jalna, (1927)
Whiteoaks of Jalna, (1929)
Finch’s Fortune, (1932)
The Master of Jalna, (1933)
Whiteoak Harvest, (1936)
Wakefield’s Course, (1941)
Return to Jalna, (1946)
Renny’s Daughter, (1951)
Variable Winds at Jalna, (1954)
Centenary at Jalna, (1958)
The Return of the Emigrant (play, 1928)
Low Life and Other Plays (contains Low Life, Come True, and The Return of the Emigrant, 1929)
Portrait of a Dog (1930)
Lark Ascending (1932)
The Thunder of the New Wings, (1932)
Beside a Norman Tower, (1934)
Whiteoaks: A Play (adapted from Whiteoaks of Jalna, 1936)
The Very Little House (1937)
Growth of a Man (1938)
The Sacred Bullock and Other Stories of Animals, (1939)
The Two Saplings (1942)
Quebec: Historic Seaport (1944)
Mistress of Jalna, (1951)
A Boy in the House, and Other Stories, (1952)
The Song of Lambert (1956)
Ringing the Changes: An Autobiography, (1957)
Bill and Coo (juvenile), (1959)
