Jane Thompson Stoddart (2 November 1863 – 15 December 1944) was a Scottish journalist and author and de facto editor of The British Weekly, "a central force in shaping and promoting the 'Nonconformist conscience'".

[2] At the age of thirteen she met Reverend William Robertson Nicoll who had just moved to Kelso from Banffshire to be the new minister.

Meanwhile, she went from school in Kelso where she learned to teach in the part of southern Edinburgh known as Bruntsfield.

[4] In 1881, she went to Hanover to learn more German, returning to Britain in 1883 to teach in Clifton.

Using her knowledge of German[2] she translated Still Hours in 1886 by Richard Rothe[5] who was a Lutheran theologian who had died in 1867.