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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]
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 ...
The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche is a 2012 Canadian biographical docudrama film written and directed by Maya Gallus. [1] The film explores the private personal life of Canadian writer Mazo de la Roche, using a mixture of archival materials, interviews and dramatic reenactments, centering in large part on the unresolved question of whether de la Roche's longtime Boston marriage with Caroline ...
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.
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.
Mazo De La Roche & Caroline Clement, ca. 1930s. Date: circa 1930. s: Source: Benares Historic House and Bianca de la Roche: Author: Unknown author: Other versions ...
Mazo de la Roche and Nancy Price – Whiteoaks; Henry de Montherlant – Pasiphaé; Harley Granville-Barker – Waste (first public performance, 1927 version; originally written 1906) Ian Hay – The Frog; George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart – You Can't Take It with You; Sinclair Lewis and John C. Moffitt – It Can't Happen Here (dramatisation)
[1] [4] Returning to Britain, he had successful roles in a number of plays, including Flowers of the Forest, a production of Mazo de la Roche's Whiteoaks, and he appeared as Konstantin in Chekhov's The Seagull, [4] [5] and was hailed as one of the most promising and handsome classical actors of the era. [6]