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Alice Perrin

 
9781331270836: Star of India (Classic Reprint)

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The rustic portion of the congregation shouted the familiar hymn with laborious goodwill, overpowering the more cultivated voices that rose from the chancel and the front pews - almost defeating the harsh notes wrung from the harmonium by the village schoolmistress, who also led the singing in a piercing key, supported raucously by her pupils gathered about the unmusical instrument. Even in the early 'nineties nothing so ambitious as an organ or a surpliced choir had as yet been attempted in this remote west-country parish, though with the advent of the new vicar innovations had begun; actually, of late, the high oak pews had been removed to make way for shining pitch-pine seats that in the little Norman church produced much the same effect as a garish oleograph set in an antique frame.

Biographie de l'auteur

'Alice Perrin' was born in India in 1867. After her education in England, she married Charles Perrin, an engineer in the India Public Works Department, in 1886, and the couple returned to India for the next sixteen years. Most of her works are based on her experiences in India. 'Star of India' was published in 1919. Her other notable works include 'East of Suez' (1901), 'The Spell of the Jungle' (1902) and 'The Woman in the Bazaar' (1914). Alice Perrin died in Switzerland in 1934

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