Sara Jeannette Duncan
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Standard Name: Duncan, Sara Jeannette
Birth Name: Sarah Janet Duncan
Nickname: Redney
Pseudonym: Sara Jeannette Duncan
Pseudonym: Sara J. Duncan
Pseudonym: Garth Grafton
Pseudonym: Jane Wintergreen
Married Name: Mrs. Everard Cotes
Pseudonym: V. Cecil Cotes
The Imperialist, which is probably her best known work. The novels often focus, too, on close female friendships. She spent about twenty-five years living in India under British rule, wrote nine novels on life there, examining in particular the role of the British wife or memsahib. Altogether, she wrote twenty-one works of fiction after beginning as a prolific journalist, motivated in part by the need to make money and escape her Indian home as often as possible. She argued for realism in literature even though her own work sometimes strayed into romance, and she was influenced by
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was a Canadian journalist, poet, and novelist whose work spans the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her writing generally features characters who fail to live up to their own potential, such as Lorne Murchison in Timeline
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