Caroline E.M.Stone

Caroline Stone was educated at Cambridge and the University of Kyoto, Japan. She has lived and worked largely in Rome and Seville, with periods in Tunisia and Saudi Arabia and now, again, Cambridge. Interests include textiles - with a book and several catalogues on Chinese export embroideries published in Spanish - and travel accounts, particularly those written by people who don't normally write books - the poor, women, slaves...Several in the series listed here were produced with the support of the Civilizations in Contact Project at Cambridge University.

Most recent publications are an edition of letters written by a family connection: the composer, and suffragette Ethel Smyth, whose lesbian amours included Virginia Woolf, and the edition of a translation from the Arabic by her late husband, Paul Lunde, of the autobiography of a young man from Aleppo, Hanna Diyab: The Man Who Wrote Aladdin.

Work in progress includes a cookery book and family history written for Syrian Christian friends in Kerala and a blog,to be turned into an ebook: https://plagueanthology.com - first person reactions to plagues and epidemics - letters, poems, prayers, chronicles - across time and space.