Her parents were Clemence Rachel (born Barclay) and Edward Sydney Woods and she was the fourth of their sixth children.

B. Priestley, the composer Benjamin Britten, the writer and broadcaster Kenneth Clark and the sculptor Henry Moore.

[1] At the suggestion of her friend Iris Murdoch, she published, "Thinking Faces", a collection of her photographs.

The portraits include Francis Cornforth from the 1950s, the guitarist Julian Bream, the composer Benjamin Britten and comic writer Joyce Grenfell.

[8] In 2018 the Bodleian Libraries published "Through The Lens of Janet Stone" recording her portraits over 26 years.