Family's India Story Takes Decades to Tell ; Great-Granddaughter's 30 Years of Research for Book Relating the Days of Raj

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When businessman John Perren married local girl Susannah Barton in the Wiltshire market town of Corsham in 1874, the town's sole claim to literary fame was helping inspire part of Charles Dickens' first novel The Pickwick Papers.

But now, the couple's great-granddaughter has written a book inspired by the exotic experiences of John and Susannah and their descendants.

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Family's India Story Takes Decades to Tell ; Great-Granddaughter's 30 Years of Research for Book Relating the Days of Raj

For within a month of their marriage, the newlyweds left Corsham behind and emigrated to a new life in the British Raj, where generations of the family lived and died.

Now, their great-granddaugh...

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