Sara Jeannette Duncan was born in Brantford, Ontario, in
1861. She attended the Toronto Normal School, then left teaching
for a career in journalism. She worked as an editorial writer and
book reviewer for the Washington Post, then wrote for the Toronto
Globe under the name of “Garth Grafton,” and contributed a column
to whose founder was Goldwin Smith. She was also parliamentary
correspondent in Ottawa for the Montreal Star.
In 1888 Duncan set off on a round-the-world trip as correspondent
for the New York World and the Montreal Star. In Calcutta she met
her future husband, Everard Cotes, an Englishman serving there as
curator of the Indian Museum. They married two years later. Duncan
lived in India for twenty-five years, with extended stays abroad in
London and frequent trips to Canada.
A prolific and popular writer of fiction, Duncan set nearly half of
her novels in India. The Imperialist (1904), generally considered
her finest, is her only novel set in Canada. During and after World
War One she devoted much of her time to playwrighting.
In 1922 Duncan and her husband retired to England.
Sara Jeannette Duncan died in Ashtead, Surrey, England in 1922.
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