[2] Born in Jersey, at the age of 15 she went to teach English in France for six years; upon return to the island finding her parents and siblings had joined the Mormon sect.

[3][4] After proselytising in Europe including Switzerland, she accompanied her husband to New York then onto Utah in 1859 where she remained for sixteen years.

Stenhouse visited Australia by September 1875 in Melbourne to lecture about the emerging religion of Mormonism, including the ongoing discussion of polygamy.

[6] February 1876 saw Stenhouse back in Melbourne at the Athenxum Hall, delivering 'a lecture exposing the evils of Mormonism'.

[4] Quite profitable, it collapsed when articles were too liberal for the sect founder, who then informed its subscribers to discontinue their patronage; whence he abandoned the church, and became a postmaster in the city and elsewhere.