In 1919 she married Frank Stenton, who held the first chair of history at Reading and was already known as a medievalist.
This project led to the first of Stenton's editorial jobs, the edition of The Earliest Lincolnshire Assize Rolls, A.D. 1202–1209 which was published by the Lincoln Record Society in 1926.
In 1922, the Stentons, along with Canon Foster of Lincoln Cathedral and Leonard Owen began discussions that revived the society.
Further conversations led to Doris Stenton being appointed organising secretary of the society in 1923.
[1] In 1948 Stenton earned a Doctor of Letters degree from Reading, and in 1953 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).