Sara Jeannette DucanCanadian writer and journalist Sara Jeannette Duncan also wrote under the pen names Mrs. Everard Cotes and Garth Grafton. After receiving her initial training as a teacher in a regular school, she had an early interest in poetry. Following her brief enure as a teacher, she worked as a travel writer for Canadian newspapers and as a columnist for the Toronto Globe. She later became the current literature section editor at the Washington Post, where she continued to write. She eventually traveled to India, where she wed an Anglo-Indian civil servant and split her time between England and India. She produced 22 fiction pieces, several of which have global settings and themes. Her books received conflicting reviews and are hardly read now. On the recommendation of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, she was designated as a National Historic Person in 2016. Sarah Janet Duncan was born on December 22, 1861, at 96 West Street, Brantford, Canada West (now Ontario). Her parents were wealthy Scottish immigrants, Charles Duncan, a dry goods and furniture manufacturer, and Jane (née Bell), an Irish-born Canadian woman. Read More Read Less