[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.

[3] Her debut books were Into Temptation and Late in Life which were both two volume novels and published in 1894 and 1896.

These were The Old Missionary by William Wilson Hunter, The Hosts of the Lord (1900) by Flora Annie Steel and Perrin's 1909 book Idolatry.