Mazo de la roche biography
Mazo de la roche biography
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de la Roche, Mazo (1879–1961)
Popular and prolific Canadian writer. Born Mazo Roche ("de la" added later) on January 15, 1879, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; died on July 12, 1961; daughter of William Roche (a salesperson) and Alberta Lundy Roche (a carpenter); attended the Ontario School of Art in Toronto, Canada, and studied under George Agnew Reid; children: (adopted) Renee and Esme.
Awarded the Atlantic Monthly prize for fiction and received widespread recognition for her novel, Jalna (1927); traveled abroad for first time and remained in England, making her home there for a number of years (1929); with her cousin Caroline Clement, adopted two orphaned children of friends (1931); returned to Toronto and re-established a home there (1938).
Selected writings:
Explorers of the Dawn (1922); Possession (1923); Low Life: A Comedy in One Act (1925); Delight (1926); Come True (1927); Jalna (1927); Low Life and Other Plays (1929); The Return of the Emigrant (1