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Star of India, Classics To Go

Stella Carrington, young and beautiful, feels that life is passing her by in the repressed Victorian household of her grandmother and spinster aunts. A casual flirtation shocks and horrifies the elderly ladies, and they summon Robert Crayfield, her godfather, who is an officer in the Indian Civil Service, to make suitable arrangements for her to be a missionary or governess. But, tantalized by her beauty and disregarding the difference in their ages, he offers to marry her instead, scandalizing the village. (Goodreads)

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. 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. Her father would become a Major General in the Bengal Cavalry. and her great grandfather, Sir George Robinson, 1st Baronet had been a director of the East India Company. Perrin wrote about the missionaries in India and she was not enthusiastic about them.

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