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The Path of a Star
Sara Jeannette Duncan, later Cotes (1861-1922), was a Canadian author and journalist. She first worked as a schoolteacher before taking up journalism as a full-time occupation. Various freelancing work led to her taking her first position at the Washington Post in 1885. In 1886, she made history as the first woman to be hired as a professional journalist in Canada, taking a regular position at the Toronto Globe, now the Globe and Mail. She later moved to the Montreal Star, where she was the paper’s Parliamentary correspondent. She published 22 books, including two volumes of personal sketches and a collection of short stories. Her first book, A Social How Orthodocia and I Went Around the World by Ourselves (1890) documented an around-the-world trip, but she is best known today for her 1904 novel The Imperialist. Amongst her other works A Daughter of Today (1894), The Story of Sonny Sahib (1894), A Voyage of Consolation (1898), The Path of a Star (1898), A Story of Calcutta (1898), The Crow’s Nest (1901), The Pool in the Desert (1903), Set in Authority (1906) and Cousin A Canadian Girl in London (1908).
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1898
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About the author
Sara Jeannette Duncan
106 books6 followersCanadian born author and journalist.
After her marriage to Everard Charles Cotes she spent most of her time between England & India.
Duncan had been treated for tuberculosis in 1900, spending the summer out of doors in the fresh air of Simla, as chronicled in On the Other Side of the Latch (1901), published in the United States and Canada as The Crow's Nest. Duncan died of chronic lung disease on 22 July 1922 at Ashtead, Surrey, whence she and her husband had moved in 1921.
In 2016, she was named a National Historic Person on the advice of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
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a.k.a.:
Mrs. Everard Cotes
Sara Everard Cotes
Sara Jeannette Duncan Cotes
This author also writes under the pseudonym Mrs Everard Cotes.
After her marriage to Everard Charles Cotes she spent most of her time between England & India.
Duncan had been treated for tuberculosis in 1900, spending the summer out of doors in the fresh air of Simla, as chronicled in On the Other Side of the Latch (1901), published in the United States and Canada as The Crow's Nest. Duncan died of chronic lung disease on 22 July 1922 at Ashtead, Surrey, whence she and her husband had moved in 1921.
In 2016, she was named a National Historic Person on the advice of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
information extracted from Wikipedia
a.k.a.:
Mrs. Everard Cotes
Sara Everard Cotes
Sara Jeannette Duncan Cotes
This author also writes under the pseudonym Mrs Everard Cotes.
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September 22, 2015
An unusually intelligent and perceptive romance featuring various late-Victorian British colonialists in Calcutta falling in love with the wrong people.
Hilda Howe is a travelling actress clearly on the way to the top of her profession before she meets Stephen Arnold, a Catholic priest. Alecia Livingstone, her friend and 'pupil in the arts of life', loves the handsome Duff Lindsey, but he falls for Captain of the Salvation Army, a pious zealot for the cause.
The subtle ironies of the characters' speech and behaviour, the complete lack of emotional cliche or platitude and, of course, the setting, are not too dissimilar to E.M. Forster's A Passage to India. Forster met Duncan once and considered her “clever and odd".
Her heroine, Hilda Howe, is certainly a clever lady, and she certainly makes an odd choice on her path to becoming a star. The ending was a little abrupt, but it was the perfect way in which to crystalise the author's ideas about duty, love and vocational callings both high and low.
A surprising little gem of a novel by a writer I had never before heard of.
Hilda Howe is a travelling actress clearly on the way to the top of her profession before she meets Stephen Arnold, a Catholic priest. Alecia Livingstone, her friend and 'pupil in the arts of life', loves the handsome Duff Lindsey, but he falls for Captain of the Salvation Army, a pious zealot for the cause.
The subtle ironies of the characters' speech and behaviour, the complete lack of emotional cliche or platitude and, of course, the setting, are not too dissimilar to E.M. Forster's A Passage to India. Forster met Duncan once and considered her “clever and odd".
Her heroine, Hilda Howe, is certainly a clever lady, and she certainly makes an odd choice on her path to becoming a star. The ending was a little abrupt, but it was the perfect way in which to crystalise the author's ideas about duty, love and vocational callings both high and low.
A surprising little gem of a novel by a writer I had never before heard of.
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