In 1927, Mazo de la Roche was an impoverished writer in Toronto when she won a $10,000 prize from the American magazine Atlantic Monthly for her novel Jalna. The book became an immediate bestseller. In 1929, the sequel Whiteoaks also went to the top of bestseller lists. Mazo went on to publish 16 novels in the popular series about a Canadian family named Whiteoak, living in a house called Jalna. Her success allowed her to travel the world and to live in a mansion near Windsor Castle. Mazo created unforgettable characters who come to life for her readers, but she was secretive about her own life and tried to escape the public attention her fame brought.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 813/.52
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781770707320 9781894852203
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.D42
- LCCN Item number
- Z75 2006eb
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- 1 electronic text (196 p.)
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- Canada
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00601796 (OCoLC)288125439 (CaOOCEL)413263
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Table of Contents
- Heather Kirk 2
- Contents 9
- Prologue 11
- Beginnings 17
- No Longer Lonely 31
- Young Women 45
- Breakdown 59
- Screams 69
- We Two Against the World 81
- The Winner 99
- Goodbye Canada 113
- Children 123
- Stage Struck and Royalty Mad 135
- Endings 149
- Epilogue 161
- The Jalna Novels by Mazo de la Roche 164
- Other Books by Mazo de la Roche 165
- Chronology of Mazo de la Roche 1879-1961 167
- Sources Consulted 191
- Acknowledgments 195
- Index 198
