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 Monsignor Ketteler, then Bishop of Mainz.
On her return to England, she was encouraged as a historian by Jesuit contacts.

Works

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.