East of Suez : Stories of Love, Betrayal and Haunting from the Raj

Alice Perrin

Alice Perrin (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. 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.[1] Her father would become a Major General in the Bengal Cavalry.[2] 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.[1] She published a short story titled Caulfield's Crime in the 1892 Belgravia Annual