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Sara Jeannette Duncan (22 December 1861 – 22 July 1922) was a Canadian author and journalist. She also published as Mrs. Everard Cotes among other names. First trained as a teacher in a normal school, she published poetry early in her life and after a brief period of teaching got a job as a travelling writer for Canadian newspapers and wrote a column for ''The Globe'', a Toronto paper. Afterward she wrote for the ''Washington Post'' where she also gained editorial experience, being quickly put in charge of the current literature section. She continued to work as a writer and editor for Canadian publications until a journey to India, where she married an Anglo-Indian civil servant. From then on she divided her time between England and India, writing for publications in various countries, and then began to write fiction rather than journalism. She wrote 22 works of fiction, many with international themes and settings, novels which met with mixed acclaim and today are rarely read. She died in Ashtead, Surrey, a year after she moved there with her husband. ==Life== 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 came to an end in December 1884 when she travelled to New Orleans after persuading the ''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 of "Garth" and were very successful: they were reprinted in other newspapers, and led ''The Globe'' to offer her a regular weekly column when she returned to Canada some months later. Duncan wrote her column for ''The Globe'', titled "Other People and I", 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 after her previous departure. As in Washington, she also contributed more generally as a member of the editorial staff. While the "Woman's World" column was generally 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''". In early 1887, Duncan became parliamentary correspondent for the ''Montreal Star'', basing herself in Ottawa. In 1888, she embarked on a world tour with a friend, Montreal journalist Lily Lewis. The idea of a woman travelling alone at that time was unconventional. Her intention was to gather material for a book, although both women also filed stories to the ''Star'' as they travelled. It was in 1889, during this tour, that she attended a function in Calcutta organised by Lord Lansdowne, then the Viceroy of India, whom she had previously known in Canada. At this reception she met the Anglo-Indian civil servant Everard Charles Cotes, who was working as an entomologist in the Indian Museum. The couple married a year later on 6 December 1890, following a proposal at the Taj Mahal. After her marriage, Duncan split her time mostly between England and India, often spending much of it alone in rented flats in Kensington, London. The travelling was necessitated by her continued commitment to writing books and articles for journals in several countries, almost always with an eye on what would sell. There had been plans for her and Everard to return permanently to England in 1894 but these did not come to fruition: her husband reinvented himself as a journalist and edited the Calcutta-based ''Indian Daily News'' between 1894–97, later becoming managing director of the Eastern News Agency. Although Marian Fowler, a biographer, argued that the couple's marriage was unhappy, hers is not the commonly accepted view and, while details of the relationship are murky, Duncan certainly supported her husband in various work-related endeavours. She also cultivated a friendship with James Louis Garvin during the time that he was editor of ''The Outlook'' and ''The Observer'', at least in part hoping that he might find a position for Everard in Britain. Warkentin suggests that theirs may have been "one of those marriages in which a difficult woman and a gentle, agreeable man made common cause". Sometimes she lived at Simla, the summer capital city of the British Raj, when in India. It was there that she entertained E. M. Forster in 1912. He noted a characteristic ambivalence in her manner, saying that she was "clever and odd – (times very (crossed out) ) nice to talk to alone, but at times the Social Manner descended like a pall". Around the time of World War I, for the duration of which Duncan and her husband were unable to be together, she began to take an interest in writing plays but had little success. She maintained her interest until 1921, two years after her husband had finally left India and the couple had taken residence in Chelsea. Duncan had been treated for tuberculosis in 1900. Childless, she died of chronic lung disease on 22 July 1922 at Ashtead, Surrey, whence she and her husband had moved in 1921. She had been a smoker and it is possible that the cause of death was emphysema, although her lung problems generally may have been exacerbated by the climate and sanitation in Calcutta. She was buried at St Giles' Church, Ashtead, and left a CAD$13,000 estate. Though she rarely returned to Canada after marrying Cotes, and last visited in 1919, she had always insisted that the royalties from her books were paid into her bank account in Brantford. Everard Cotes, who was her beneficiary and worked as parliamentary correspondent for the ''Christian Science Monitor'', outlived her and remarried in 1923, fathering two children before his death in 1944. Among Duncan's contacts in the literary world were the journalists Goldwin Smith (of the ''Week'') and John Stephen Willison, the novelist and editor Jean Newton McIlwraith, and George William Ross. She also had some contact with William Dean Howells and Henry James, whose writings she admired. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sara Jeannette Duncan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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