author
Alice Perrin
1867–1934
Best known for vivid fiction about British life in colonial India, this late Victorian and Edwardian writer mixed social observation with an eerie talent for ghost stories. Her work found a wide audience after the success of East of Suez, a collection that helped make her name.
2 Audiobooks
The Woman in the Bazaar
by Alice Perrin
Star of India
by Alice Perrin
About the author
Born in Mussoorie, India, in 1867, Alice Perrin was educated in England and later returned to India after marrying Charles Perrin, an engineer in the Indian Public Works Department. The years she spent there shaped much of her fiction, which often focused on the daily lives, tensions, and beliefs of British communities in colonial India.
She wrote novels, short stories, and supernatural tales, and became especially known for East of Suez (1901). Readers were drawn to the way she blended domestic and social detail with unease, folklore, and the uncanny, giving her ghost stories a strong sense of place.
Perrin died in 1934, but her writing still interests readers today for its memorable atmosphere and its window into the world she knew. Alongside the period attitudes that modern readers may find dated, her fiction remains notable for its storytelling energy and for the central place India held in her imagination.