[1] Around 1908 Stone married Abigail Allen and also began to write a novel Jonah, published in London in 1911.

According to Geoffrey Dutton, Stone was intimately familiar with the setting for Jonah, spending time in Waterloo and Paddy's Market, studying the local larrikins and their speech.

It was not a financial success, until popularity was finally attained in the nineteen sixties and seventies after it was put on high school reading lists.H.

The only one to be staged in his lifetime was The Lap of the Gods which, produced by Gregan McMahon, had a one-week run in Sydney.

John Galsworthy in 1921 wrote, “I was much struck not long ago with Lewis Stone’s novel JONAH, a very fine piece of work.