IEL has a relatively recent history, being nearly two centuries old. The first book written by an Indian in English was "The Travels of Dean Mahomet", a travel narrative by Sake Dean Mahomed, published in England in 1794. In its early stages, IEL was influenced by the Western novel. Early Indian writers used English unadulterated by Indian words to convey an experience which was essentially Indian. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838–1894) wrote "Rajmohan's Wife" and published it in 1864; it is the first Indian novel written in English. Lal Behari Day's "Govinda Samanta or the History of a Bengali Raiyat" was published in 1874 and the same author's "Folk Tales of Bengal: Life's Secret" was published in 1912. "Bianca, or The Young Spanish Maiden" (1878) by Toru Dutt was the first novel written by an Indian woman. Both Toru Dutt and Krupabai Satthianadhan, two promising Indian English writers of the nineteenth century died untimely in their early twenties and thirties respectively. Satthianadhan's autobiographical novel "Saguna: A Story of Native Christian Life" was published serially in "The Madras Christian College Magazine" from 1887 to 1888. The only other novel by Satthianandhan is "Kamala: The Story of a Hindu Life" (1894).