The Jalna Saga – Deluxe Edition: All Sixteen Books of the Enduring Classic Series & The Biography of Mazo de la Roche (677 page)

B
RATTON
, Daniel L.
Thirty-Two Short Views of Mazo de la Roche
. Toronto: ECW Press, 1996.

C
LEMENT
, Caroline. Interviewed by Ronald Hambleton. Rec. 19 Feb. 1964. Audiotape. University of Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. Mazo de la Roche Ms. Coll. 120, Box 3.

D
AVIES
, Robertson.
The Well-tempered Critic
. Ed. Judith Skelton Grant. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1981.

D
AYMOND
, Douglas. “Lark Ascending.”
Canadian Literature
81 (1981): 172–78.

_____. “Whiteoak Chronicles: A Reassessment.”
Canadian Literature
66 (1975): 48–62.

D
E LA
R
OCHE
, Mazo. Interviewed by Ronald Hambleton. Rec. Jan. 1955. Audiotape. University of Toronto. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. Mazo de la Roche Ms. Coll. 120, Box 3.

_____.
Beside a Norman Tower
. Toronto: Macmillan, 1934.

_____.
Portrait of a Dog
. Toronto: Macmillan, 1930.

_____.
Ringing the Changes
. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1957.

D
UFFY
, Dennis. “Mazo de la Roche.”
The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature
. Ed. William Toye. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1983.

G
EORGET
, Daniele. “Mazo de la Roche: Un Géant de la Littérature Romanesque.”
Paris Match
7 July 1994:56–58.

G
IVNER
, Joan.
Mazo de la Roche: the Hidden Life
. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1989.

H
AMBLETON
, Ronald.
Mazo de la Roche of Jalna
. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1966.

_____.
The Secret of Jalna
. Toronto: General Publishing, 1972.

H
ENDRICK
, George.
Mazo de la Roche
. New York: Twayne, 1970.

K
ELL
, William [1859–1941]. “Cherry Creek as It Was about 1868.” Ms. 1932. Ed. William M. Kell [Barrie, Ont] 1993.

K
IRK
, Heather. “Fairytale Elements in the Early Work of Mazo de la Roche.”
Wascana Review
22.1 (1987): 3–17.

_____. “Caroline Clement: The Hidden Life of Mazo de la Roche’s Collaborator.”
Canadian Literature
184 (2005): 46–67.

_____. “The Lundys of Whitchurch as the Whiteoaks of Jalna.”
Essays on Canadian Writing
. (2006).

_____. “Who Were the Whiteoaks and Where Was Jalna?” Unpublished monograph, 2005.

L
IVESAY
, Dorothy. “The Making of Jalna: A Reminiscence.”
Canadian Literature
23 (1965): 25–30.

_____. “Mazo Explored.”
Canadian Literature
32 (1967): 57–59.

_____. “Foreword: Remembering Mazo.”
Selected Stories of Mazo de la Roche
. Ed. Douglas Daymond. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1979. 11–13.

“Melancholy Accident.”
Newmarket Era
22 Jan. 1886: 2.

P
ACEY
, Desmond. Introduction.
Delight
. By Mazo de la Roche. New Canadian Library 21. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1961. Vii-x.

P
ANOFSKY
, Ruth. “At Odds: Reviewers and Readers of the Jalna Novels.”
Studies in Canadian Literature
25.1 (2000): 57–72.

_____. “Don’t Let Me Do It: Mazo de la Roche and her Publishers.”
International journal of Canadian Studies
11 (1995): 171–184.

S
YMONS
, Scott. “Mazo Was Murdered.” Review of
Mazo de la Roche: The Hidden Life
, by Joan Givner.
The Idler
Jan. & Feb. 1990: 53–56.

Sovereign House in Bronte, Ontario. Now a museum partly dedicated to Mazo de la Roche, Sovereign House was the setting of
Possession
, her first novel.

Mazo at about age thirty, on the Bronte shoreline beside Lake Ontario in winter.

I
thank my husband, Jack Winzer, who helped in too many ways to list here. I also thank the previous biographers of Mazo de la Roche, on whose work I built, especially Ronald Hambleton and Joan Givner. I thank the estate of Mazo de la Roche for allowing me to quote from her work. (All quotations at the beginning of chapters are from Mazo de la Roche’s autobiography,
Ringing the Changes
.) I thank Kathy Lowinger of Tundra Books for recommending me for a Writers’ Reserve Grant from the Ontario Arts Council. I thank the Ontario Arts Council for its financial support. I thank Rhonda Bailey of XYZ Publishing for her admirable editing. I thank my writer friends for their encouragement.

I also thank the following people – many of them volunteers – who made special efforts to assist me with my research for this book: Bruce Beacock, Archivist, Simcoe County Archives, Midhurst, ON; Clark Bernat and other members of the Niagara Historical Society and Museum, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON; Susan Blue, Fergus, ON; Tony and Cathy Blue, Aurora, ON; Bill Bowman, Ontario Genealogical Society, Brantford, ON; Bonnie Bridge, Manitoba Genealogical Society, Winnipeg, MN; Sharon Bunn, Family History Center, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Barrie, ON; Leah Byzewski, Grand Forks County Historical Society, Grand Forks, ND; Haughton and Jean Clement, Toronto, ON; Keith and Patricia Clement, Thornhill, ON; Anne Corkett, Mono Centre, ON; Jean (Lundy) Daniels, Scarborough, ON.

I thank Bianca de la Roche, Guelph, ON.; Adele Dibben, Hastings County Historical Society, Cannifton, ON; Kenneth and Virginia Douglas, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON; Bob and Jan Drybrough, Churchill, ON; Ralph and Dorothy Featherstone, Hornby, ON; Marilyn Harry, OGS, Ameliasburg, ON.; Doreen Horton, Barrie, ON; Bert and Elsie Giles, Bronte, ON; Scott Gillies, Museums of Mississauga, Mississauga, ON; Joshua Hanzal, GFCHS, Grand Forks, ND; Anna Hudson, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON; Information Services Library Staff of the Aurora Public Library, Barrie Public Library, Belleville Public Library, Brantford Public Library, Mississauga Library System, Newmarket Public Library, and Orillia Public Library; Myrtle Johnson, OGS, North Augusta, ON; Roy Johnson and other members of the Niagara Peninsula Branch, OGS, St. Catherines, ON.

I thank William Kell, Barrie, ON; Linda Kennedy, Research Library, Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, Buffalo, NY; Olive (Bostwick) Komar, Gormley, ON; Barbara Sayers Larson, Mississauga, ON; John Lennox, York U, Toronto, ON; Gail Lucas, Stroud, ON; Joseph Lundy, Sharon, ON; Barbara Ann McAlpine and other members of the Bronte Historical Society, Oakville, ON; J. Messmer, Lower Lakes Marine Historical Society, Buffalo, NY; Stephanie Meeuwse, Museums of Mississauga, Mississauga, ON; Ellen Millar and Peter Moran, Archivists, SCA, Midhurst, ON; Roger Nixon, Military and Historical Searches, London, England; Esmée Rees, Toronto, ON; Marion Rhodes, Archivist, Toronto Diocese, Anglican Church of Canada, Toronto, ON; James Rutherford, MGS, Winnipeg, MN; Jean Sarjeant, Orillia Museum, Orillia, ON; Beth Sinyard, Newmarket Museum, Newmarket, ON.

I thank Sandy Slater, Chester Fritz Library, U of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; Staff, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, U of Toronto, Toronto, ON; Jacqueline Stewart, Aurora Museum, Aurora, ON; Clara Thomas, York U, Toronto, ON; Marjorie Todd, Barrie, ON; Dana Vlasak, Recreation and Parks, City of Mississauga, Mississauga, ON; Ross Wallace, Innisfil Historical Society, Innisfil, ON; Brian Winter, Town of Whitby Archivist, Whitby, ON; Ethel Winzer, Oakville, ON; Jeanne Wright, Holland Landing, ON; Gordon and Nancy Young, Bradford, ON; Jane Zavitz-Bond, Archivist, Canadian Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Dorland Room, Pickering College, Newmarket, ON.

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Mazo de la Roche was once Canada’s best-known writer, loved by millions of readers around the world. She created unforgettable characters who come to life for her readers, but she was secretive about her own life. When she died in 1961, her cousin and lifelong companion, Caroline Clement, burned her diaries, adding to the aura of mystery that already surrounded Mazo.

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