Canadian 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.
