 The autobiographical "On the Other Side of the Latch" (1901) was set in Duncan's garden in Simla, where she had been forced to spend seven months while recovering from her tuberculosis infection.Warkentin sees this work as an example of her eye for a commercial opportunity.Duncan occasionally strayed from the subject of Anglo-Indian society and is best-known and most studied today for "The Imperialist", a 1904 work which was her only novel set in Canada and centers on a fictional town modeled on Brantford.