# Alice Perrin > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alice_Perrin > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alice_Perrin.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Perrin > Source revision: 1344611739 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) British novelist Alice Perrin in 1906 Born Alice Robinson (1867-07-15)15 July 1867 Mussoorie, North-Western Provinces, British Raj Died 13 February 1934(1934-02-13) (aged 66) Vaud, Switzerland Occupation Writer Known for Novels and ghost stories Spouse Charles Perrin Children 1 **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*. ## Life Perrin was born in the hill station of [Mussoorie](/source/Mussoorie) in Anglo-India in 1867. Her parents were Bertha and her second husband John Innes Robinson.[1] Her father would become a Major General in the Bengal Cavalry.[2] and her great grandfather, [Sir George Robinson, 1st Baronet](/source/Sir_George_Robinson%2C_1st_Baronet) had been a director of the [East India Company](/source/East_India_Company). 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. 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.[1] She published a short story titled *Caulfield's Crime* in the 1892 Belgravia Annual.[3] "Never Been in Love" illustration by [Harold Copping](/source/Harold_Copping) for "Beynon of the Irrigation Department" ([Windsor Magazine](/source/The_Windsor_Magazine) in 1896)[3] Her debut books were *Into Temptation* and *Late in Life* which were both two volume novels and published in 1894 and 1896.[1] She would eventually publish seventeen novels.[4] 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](/source/Punch_(magazine)) considered her writing better.[1] 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](/source/William_Wilson_Hunter), *The Hosts of the Lord* (1900) by [Flora Annie Steel](/source/Flora_Annie_Steel) and Perrin's 1909 book *Idolatry*.[5] Perrin and her husband moved to Switzerland in 1925 and three years later her only child died in London. She died in [Vaud](/source/Vaud) in 1934.[1] ## Selected works Woman in bazaar - illustrated by J Dewar Mills in 1914 - *Into Temptation* (1894) - *Late in Life* (1896) - *East of Suez* (1901) - anthology of short stories[3] - *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) - *Rough Passages* (1926), collection of 10 short stories ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-o2015_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-o2015_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-o2015_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-o2015_1-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-o2015_1-4) "Perrin [née Robinson], Alice (1867–1934), novelist | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". *[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](/source/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography)* (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1093/ref:odnb/101279](https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F101279). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780198614111](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780198614111). (Subscription, [Wikipedia Library](https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/88/) access or [UK public library membership](https://www.oxforddnb.com/help/subscribe#public) required.) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Archives, The National. ["The Discovery Service"](http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/f04411ce-9be4-48b2-b4cf-5ca368b8f23c). *discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk*. Retrieved 15 October 2018. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Perrin2011_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Perrin2011_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Perrin2011_3-2) Alice Perrin (2011). [*East of Suez*](https://books.google.com/books?id=hpmHATQFx6AC&pg=PA30). Victorian Secrets. p. 30. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-906469-18-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-906469-18-4). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Alice Perrin (1867-1934) - Victorian Secrets"](https://www.victoriansecrets.co.uk/authors/alice-perrin-1867-1934/). *Victorian Secrets*. Retrieved 15 October 2018. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-Riddick2006_5-0)** John F. Riddick (1 January 2006). [*The History of British India: A Chronology*](https://books.google.com/books?id=Es6x4u_g19UC&pg=PA179). Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 179. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-313-32280-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-313-32280-8). ## External links - [Works by Alice Perrin](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/47346) at [Project Gutenberg](/source/Project_Gutenberg) - [Works by Alice Perrin](https://fadedpage.com/csearch.php?author=Perrin%2C%20Alice) at [Faded Page](/source/Distributed_Proofreaders_Canada) (Canada) - [Alice Perrin by Melissa Edmundson](https://melissaedmundson.com/alice-perrin/) - [Works by Alice Perrin](https://librivox.org/author/11846) at [LibriVox](/source/LibriVox) (public domain audiobooks) Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND WorldCat National United States Czech Republic Spain Netherlands Greece People Trove DDB Other IdRef Open Library Yale LUX --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Alice Perrin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Perrin) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Perrin?action=history)). 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