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Alice Perrin or Alice Robinson (15 July 1867 – 13 February 1934) was a British novelist who wrote about the British in colonial India. She became successful after the publication of her short ghost story collection ''East of Suez''.
Her debut books were ''Into Temptation'' and ''Late in Life'' which were both two volume novels and published in 1894 and 1896. She would eventually publish seventeen novels.
Her writing became popular after the first of her collections of short ghost stories was published. ''East of Suez'' sold well and her writing was compared to Rudyard Kipling where in places
*''Into Temptation'' (1894)
*''Late in Life'' (1896)
*''East of Suez'' (1901) - anthology of short stories
*''The Spell of the Jungle'' (1902)
*''Idolatory'' (1909)
*''The Anglo-Indians'' (1912)
*''The Happy Hunting Ground'' (1914)
*''Woman in Bazaar'' (1914)
*''Star of India'' (1919)
*''Government House'' (1925)
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Perrin, Alice 1867 births 1934 deaths Ghost story writers People from Mussoorie 19th-century British novelists 20th-century British novelists British women novelists 20th-century British women writers 19th-century women writers
Life
Perrin was born in the hill station ofMussoorie
Mussoorie is a hill station and a municipal board, near Dehradun city in the Dehradun district of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is about from the state capital of Dehradun and north of the national capital of New Delhi. The hill st ...
in Anglo-India in 1867. Her parents were Bertha and her second husband John Innes Robinson. Her father would become a Major General in the Bengal Cavalry. and her great grandfather, Sir George Robinson, 1st Baronet
Sir George Abercrombie Robinson, 1st Baronet (29March 175813February 1832) was a British MP and Chairman of the East India Company.
He was born the son of John Robinson of Calcutta, who died at the Cape of Good Hope in 1779, and Margaret, daugh ...
had been a director of the East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southea ...
. She was sent to England where she went to school and when she returned she married an engineer named Charles Perrin on 26 May 1886 in Dehra
Dera, Dero, Daro, Dhoro, Dahar or Dehra is a word in several languages of South Asia, whose meaning is ' camp', 'mound' or 'settlement'. It appears in the names of a number of places.
Geography India
* Dera, Himachal Pradesh
* Dera Bassi, Moh ...
. Once married and after the birth of their only child she took to writing to relieve the boredom of life in India for a British woman. She published a short story titled ''Caulfield's Crime'' in the 1892 Belgravia Annual.
Her debut books were ''Into Temptation'' and ''Late in Life'' which were both two volume novels and published in 1894 and 1896. She would eventually publish seventeen novels.
Her writing became popular after the first of her collections of short ghost stories was published. ''East of Suez'' sold well and her writing was compared to Rudyard Kipling where in places Punch
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* Punch (combat), a strike made using the hand closed into a fist
* Punch (drink), a wide assortment of drinks, non-alcoholic or alcoholic, generally containing fruit or fruit juice
Punch may also refer to:
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considered her writing better.
Perrin wrote about the missionaries in India and she was not enthusiastic about them. The History of British India considers three books significant on missionaries to India. These were ''The Old Missionary'' by William Wilson Hunter
Sir William Wilson Hunter (15 July 18406 February 1900) was a Scottish historian, statistician, a compiler and a member of the Indian Civil Service.
He is most known for ''The Imperial Gazetteer of India'' on which he started working in 1869, ...
, ''The Hosts of the Lord'' (1900) by Flora Annie Steel
Flora Annie Steel (2 April 1847 – 12 April 1929) was a writer who lived in British India for 22 years. She was noted especially for books set in the Indian sub-continent or connected with it. Her novel ''On the Face of the Waters'' (1896) desc ...
and Perrin's 1909 book ''Idolatry''.
Perrin and her husband moved to Switzerland in 1925 and three years later her only child died in London. She died in Vaud
Vaud ( ; french: (Canton de) Vaud, ; german: (Kanton) Waadt, or ), more formally the canton of Vaud, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of ten districts and its capital city is Lausanne. Its coat of arms b ...
in 1934.
Selected works
*''Into Temptation'' (1894)
*''Late in Life'' (1896)
*''East of Suez'' (1901) - anthology of short stories
*''The Spell of the Jungle'' (1902)
*''Idolatory'' (1909)
*''The Anglo-Indians'' (1912)
*''The Happy Hunting Ground'' (1914)
*''Woman in Bazaar'' (1914)
*''Star of India'' (1919)
*''Government House'' (1925)
References
External links
Alice Perrin by Melissa Edmundson
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Perrin, Alice 1867 births 1934 deaths Ghost story writers People from Mussoorie 19th-century British novelists 20th-century British novelists British women novelists 20th-century British women writers 19th-century women writers