Set in Authority
by Sara Jeannette Duncan
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In 1906, two years after the appearance of her best-known novel, The Imperialist, Duncan published its darker twin, an Anglo-Indian novel which returns to political themes but with a deeper and more clinical irony than in her previous work. Set in Authorityis about illusions: the imperial illusions of those who rule and are ruled; the illusions of families about their members; the illusions of men and women about each other. The setting moves between the political drawing rooms of London and show more the English station at Pilaghur in the province of Ghoom, where the murder of a native by an English soldier changes the lives of a cast of ruthlessly observed characters. Duncan, who grew up in Ontario, led a remarkably varied life, working as a political correspondent (writing for the Washington Post, the Toronto Globeand the Montreal Star) and living in India for over twenty years. She is increasingly being regarded as deserving of a place among the first rank of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novelists; the re-publication of Set in Authoritywill do nothing to dispel that view. show lessTags
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Sara Jeannette Duncan, also known as Mrs. Everard Cotes, was born December 22, 1861 in Brantford, Ontario. She attended Central School and later Brantford Collegiate Institute. She also attended the Toronto Normal School. She was the first female journalist to be employed full-time by the Toronto Globe. There she wrote under the name of Garth show more Grafton. She was also one of the first women members of the Press Gallery in Ottawa. 'The Imperalist' (1904) was considered her best novel. On July 22, 1922, she died in Ashtead, Surrey, England. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1906
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 813.4 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English Later 19th Century 1861-1900
- LCC
- PR9199.2 .C68 .S48 — Language and Literature English English Literature English literature: Provincial, local, etc.
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