 Everard Cotes, who was her beneficiary and worked as parliamentary correspondent for the "Christian Science Monitor", outlived her and remarried in 1923, fathering two children before his death in 1944.Among Duncan's contacts in the literary world were the journalists Goldwin Smith (of the "Week") and John Stephen Willison, the novelist and editor Jean McIlwraith, and George William Ross.She also had some contact with William Dean Howells and Henry James, whose writings she admired.