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Jalna is a 16-book series of novels by the Canadian writer Mazo de la Roche. Jalna is the name of the fictional manor house in which the Whiteoak family lives. The name comes from Jalna, a city in west-central India, where there was a British garrison. In a prequel novel, the house is built by a retired officer of the British army who served in ...
Mazo de la Roche, in Clarkson 1928. De la Roche was born in Newmarket, Ontario, north of Toronto, on January 15, 1879. [1] [2] She was the only child of William Roche, a salesman, and Alberta (Lundy) Roche, who was a great-great-niece of David Willson, founder of the Children of Peace, through the latter's elder half-brother Hugh L. Willson. [3]
The Whiteoaks of Jalna was a 1972 Canadian television drama miniseries based on the Jalna novels by Mazo de la Roche. At CA$2 million, it set a record expense at the time for a Canadian television miniseries. The series was exported internationally including the United Kingdom and France.
The first to elevate Canadian Literature to the world stage were Lucy Maud Montgomery, Stephen Leacock, Mazo de la Roche, and Morley Callaghan. During the post-war decades Canadian literature, as were Australian and New Zealand literature, viewed as an appendage to British Literature.
Jalna is a 1935 RKO Radio Pictures film based on the 1927 novel of the same name by Mazo de la Roche. It stars Kay Johnson, Ian Hunter and C. Aubrey Smith. In the film, a newlywed has to adjust to her husband's odd family.
Frank De Felitta: Audrey Rose; Eduardo De Filippo: Filumena Marturano; John William De Forest: Kate Beaumont, Justine Vane, Irene Vane, and Irene, the Missionary; Jan de Hartog: Stella (filmed as The Key) Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué: Undine; Mazo de la Roche: Mary Wakefield; Warwick Deeping: Bess of the Woods, Mad Barbara, and Kitty
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Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen; Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller; So Red the Rose by Stark Young; Good-bye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton; Within This Present by Margaret Ayer Barnes