Sara Jeannette Duncan & August Nemo 
Essential Novelists – Sara Jeannette Duncan 
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Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.
For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Sara Jeannette Duncan wich are The Imperialist and An American Girl in London.
Duncan tended to identify as an Anglo-Indian, a somewhat marginalised group within the British Empire. Nine of her novels are set in India and most of her works are in the setting of Anglo-Indian society, of which she said ‘there is such abundance of material … it is full of such picturesque incidence, such tragic chance’
Novels selected for this book:

– The Imperialist
– An American Girl in London This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

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Sara Jeannette Duncan (22 December 1861 22 July 1922) was a Canadian author and journalist, who also published as Mrs. Everard Cotes among other names. First trained as a teacher in a normal school, she took to poetry early in life and after a brief teaching period worked as a travel writer for Canadian newspapers and a columnist for the Toronto Globe. Afterward she wrote for the Washington Post where she was put in charge of the current literature section. Later she made a journey to India and married an Anglo-Indian civil servant thereafter dividing her time between England and India. She wrote 22 works of fiction, many with international themes and settings. Her novels met with mixed acclaim and are rarely read today. In 2016, she was named a National Historic Person on the advice of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.