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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]
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.
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.
Haggard married Morna Gillespie in September 1935, and they had three children, of whom one died young, [1] [7] [8] and another is the director Piers Haggard. [1] [9] His granddaughter is actor Daisy Haggard. [10] In 1938, Haggard returned to New York to reprise his role as Finch in Whiteoaks, which he also directed.
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.
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 ...