Alice Perrin

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 in Anglo-India in 1867. Her parents were Bertha and her second husband John Innes Robinson. and her great grandfather, Sir George Robinson, 1st Baronet had been a director of the 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. 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 considered her writing better.

Perrin and her husband moved to Switzerland in 1925 and three years later her only child died in London. She died in Vaud in 1934. 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