<P> Sara Jeannette Duncan (22 December 1861--22 July 1922) was a Canadian author and journalist, who also published as Mrs. Everard Cotes among other names . First trained as a teacher in a normal school, she took to poetry early in life and after a brief teaching period worked as a travel writer for Canadian newspapers and a columnist for the Toronto Globe . Afterward she wrote for the Washington Post where she was put in charge of the current literature section . Later she made a journey to India and married an Anglo - Indian civil servant thereafter dividing her time between England and India . She wrote 22 works of fiction, many with international themes and settings . Her novels met with mixed acclaim and are rarely read today . In 2016, she was named a National Historic Person on the advice of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada . </P> <P> Born Sara Janet Duncan on 22 December 1861 at 96 West Street, Brantford, Canada West (now Ontario), she was the oldest daughter of Charles Duncan, a well - off Scottish immigrant who worked as a dry goods and furniture merchant, and his wife, Jane (née Bell), who was Canada - born of Irish descent . She trained as a teacher at Brantford Model School and Toronto Normal School, but always had an eye on a literary career . She had poetry printed as early as 1880, two years before she fully qualified as a teacher . A period of supply teaching in the Brantford area ended in December 1884, when she travelled to New Orleans after persuading The Globe newspaper in Toronto and the Advertiser in London, Ontario to pay her for articles about the World Cotton Centennial . Her articles were published under the pseudonym "Garth" and reprinted in other newspapers . They led The Globe to offer her a regular weekly column when she returned to Canada some months later . </P> <P> Duncan wrote her "Other People and I" column for The Globe during the summer of 1885 using the name "Garth Grafton". She then moved to the Washington Post in Washington D.C., where she was soon put in charge of the current literature department . She was back as "Garth Grafton" at The Globe in summer 1886, taking over the "Woman's World" section that had emerged . As in Washington, she contributed more generally as a member of the editorial staff . While the "Woman's World" column was fairly light in tone, she also wrote a more serious column for Week, a Toronto - based literary periodical, using the names "Jeannette Duncan" and "Sara Jeannette Duncan". Her biographer, Misao Dean, says that "well - suited to the Week, her strongly defined progressive views on international copyright, women's suffrage, and realist fiction made her work remarkable in such conservative journals as the Globe and the Post ." </P>

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