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Elizabeth Stone (April 1803 – August 1881) was an English writer of social history and social protest novels.
She was born Elizabeth Wheeler into a publishing family in Manchester in 1803. Her father John Wheeler and grandfather Charles Wheeler were publishers of the Manchester Chronicle since its inception in 1781. She had four brothers: Charles Henry, a printer and bookseller; John, founder of the Hampshire Independent newspaper; James, publisher of Manchester: Its Political, Social and Commercial History and of a Manchester poetry anthology; and Thomas, a lawyer and judge. Her mother was Mary Wheeler née Serjeant and she had two sisters.[1]
In 1834, she married Revd Thomas Stone, who was a theological lecturer at St Bees College, Cumberland, and later curate of Felsted, Essex and Examiner in Hebrew at the University of London.[2]
- ^ Ledbetter, Kathryn; Wortley, Renn Edward (2014). "The 'Ungallant Silence of the Historian': Elizabeth Stone, Esther Owen and the Art of Needlework". Journal of Victorian Culture. 19 (3): 266. doi:10.1080/13555502.2014.947183 – via Oxford Academic.
- ^ Mitchell, Rosemary (2004). "Stone [née Wheeler], Elizabeth (1803–1881), novelist and historian". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/46563. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)