A collection of twelve from the 'Jalna series' by Mazo de la Roche. Spanning 1854 to 1954, the series tells the story of the Whiteoak family who lived on a southern Ontario estate.The novels were not written in sequential order. Each can be read as an independent story.
Jalna is partly based on Benares, a house in Mississauga, Canada. Benares was built in the late 1850s for a retired officer of the British army who had served in India, James B. Harris. It once occupied a larger estate, upon which de la Roche lived for a time. De la Roche wrote the series of sixteen over a period of thirty years beginning with Jalna in 1927. These are twelve of the sixteen.
This collection published by Macmillan & Co Ltd in 1951 to 1955. They measure 7.5" x 5.5."
