Mary Jean Stone

Mary Jean Stone 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 Wilhelm Emmanuel von 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 ;
Eleanor Leslie, a memoir of a Scottish convert ;
Mary the First, Queen of England ;
Reformation and Renaissance, studies;
Studies from Court and Cloister, reprinted essays, including "Margaret Tudor", "Sir Henry Bedingfeld", and a "Missing Page from the Idylls of the King" ;
The Church in English History, a textbook for teachers of history.

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