Mary Jean Stone

Mary Jean Stone (born at Brighton, Sussex, in 1853; died at Battle, Sussex, 3 May 1908) was an English historical writer.

Life

She was educated in Paris and at Aschaffenburg in Germany, where she acquired a knowledge of French, German, and Italian. In Germany she became a Roman Catholic convert, and was received into the Catholic Church by Monsignor Ketteler, then Bishop of Mainz.

On her return to England, she was encouraged as a historian by Jesuit contacts.

Works

• "Faithful unto Death", a study of the martyrs of the Order of St. Francis during the Reformation period (1892);
• "Eleanor Leslie", a memoir of a Scottish convert (1898);
• "Mary the First, Queen of England" (1901);
• "Reformation and Renaissance" (1904), studies;
• "Studies from Court and Cloister", reprinted essays, including "Margaret Tudor", "Sir Henry Bedingfeld", and a "Missing Page from the Idylls of the King" (1905);
• "The Church in English History", a textbook for teachers of history (1907).

Her "Cardinal Pole", begun for the St. Nicholas Series, was interrupted by her death. She was a frequent contributor to the periodicals, the Dublin Review, The Month, Blackwood's Magazine, Cornhill Magazine, etc., and contributed several articles to Catholic Encyclopedia.