Mary Jean Stone

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Mary Jean Stone
Born1853 (1853)
Brighton, Sussex, England
Died3 May 1908(1908-05-03) (aged 54–55)
Battle, East Sussex, England
OccupationWriter
NationalityEnglish
Genre Non-fiction

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

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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

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 .

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