Mazo de la Roche

Mazo de la Roche (1879-01-15 – 1961-07-12), born Mazo Louise Roche in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, was the author of the Jalna series of novels, one of the most popular series of books of her time.

Works

Published works

• Explorers of the Dawn (collection of previously published sketches), Knopf, 1922.
• Possession (novel), Macmillan Publishers, 1923, reprinted, C. Chivers, 1973.
• Low Life: A Comedy in One Act (play; first produced as Low Life in Toronto, Ontario, at Trinity Memorial Hall, May 14, 1925), Macmillan, 1925.
• Delight (novel), Macmillan, 1926, reprinted with introduction by Desmond Pacey, McClelland and Stewart, 1961.
• Come True (play; first produced in Toronto at Trinity Memorial Hall, May 16, 1927), Macmillan, 1927.
• Jalna series (in narrative order)
• Building of Jalna, Little, Brown, 1944 ISBN 0316179965
• Morning at Jalna, Little, Brown, 1960 ISBN 0333039335
• Mary Wakefield, Little, Brown, 1949 ISBN 0333076524
• Young Renny, Little, Brown, 1935 ISBN 0333013719
• Whiteoak Heritage, Little, Brown, 1940 ISBN 0333050908
• Whiteoak Brothers, Little, Brown, 1953 ISBN 0333088093
• Jalna, Little, Brown, 1927 ISBN 0316180009
• Whiteoaks of Jalna, Little, Brown, 1929; published as Whiteoaks, Macmillan, 1929, ISBN 0316180149
• Finch's Fortune, Little, Brown, 1932 ISBN 0333099664
• The Master of Jalna, Little, Brown, 1933 ISBN 0316180025
• Whiteoak Harvest, Little, Brown, 1936 ISBN 0333074041
• Wakefield's Course, Little, Brown, 1941 ISBN 0316180106
• Return to Jalna, Little, Brown, 1946 ISBN 0333048423
• Renny's Daughter, Little, Brown, 1951 ISBN 0333085612
• Variable Winds at Jalna, Little, Brown, 1954 ISBN 0333022807
• Centenary at Jalna, Little, Brown, 1958 ISBN 0316179973
• The Return of the Emigrant (play), first produced in Toronto at Trinity Memorial Hall, March 12, 1928.
• Low Life and Other Plays (contains Low Life, Come True, and The Return of the Emigrant), Little, Brown, 1929. ISBN 1131680677
• Portrait of a Dog (novel), Little, Brown, 1930.
• Lark Ascending (novel), Little, Brown, 1932.
• The Thunder of the New Wings, Little, Brown, 1932.
• Beside a Norman Tower, Little, Brown, 1934. ISBN 1199865893
• (With Nancy Price) Whiteoaks: A Play (adapted from Whiteoaks of Jalna; first produced in London, England, at Little Theatre in the Adelphi, April 13, 1936; produced on Broadway, 1938), Macmillan, 1936. ISBN 0333062477
• The Very Little House (novel), Little, Brown, 1937.
• Growth of a Man (novel), Little, Brown, 1938.
• The Sacred Bullock and Other Stories of Animals, Little, Brown, 1939, reprinted, Books for Libraries Press, 1969. ISBN 0836931866
• The Two Saplings (novel), Macmillan, 1942.
• Quebec: Historic Seaport (non-fiction), Doubleday, 1944. ISBN 1121264239
• Mistress of Jalna, first produced in Bromley, Kent, England, at New Theatre, November 12, 1951.
• A Boy in the House, and Other Stories, Little, Brown, 1952.
• The Song of Lambert (juvenile), Macmillan, 1955, Little Brown, 1956.
• ', Little, Brown, 1957. ISBN 1141379422
• Bill and Coo (juvenile), Macmillan, 1958, Little, Brown, 1959.
• (Author of introduction) George F. Nelson, editor, Northern Lights: A New Collection of Distinguished Writing by Canadian Authors, Doubleday, 1960. ISBN 0902498739
• Selected Stories of Mazo de la Roche, edited and introduced by Douglas Daymond, University of Ottawa Press, 1979. ISBN 2760343405

Related works

• Jalna 1935 film based on the novel. IMDb
• The Whiteoaks of Jalna 1972 CBC TV series based on the Jalna series. IMDb