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• Born 17th April, 33 Romola Road Herne Hill, London
• Only child of Henry James Pearce (1868-1935) printer's manager
• Georgiana Maria Wilkie, nee Hoby (1870-1963)

• Parents move to Manchester with Stella

• Ladybarn house (A Manchester prep school) 4 Years

• The Clarion articles

• Froebel School, Hammersmith

• Ladybarn House (Manchester Prep School) (4 years)

• Ladybarn House (Manchester Prep School)

• Ladybarn House (Manchester Prep School)

• Ladybarn House (Manchester Prep School)
• Oil painting of her and her Father by E Bent Walker (Why not mother?)
• 1914 First world war

• Withington Girls School, Manchester. Joined in September
• Takes various Royal Drama Society exams.

• Attends Manchester School of Art,
• Black clothes article Daily Dispatch

• Leaves Withington Girls School at 16

• July 1918 leaves Withington Girls School
• Takes Royal Drama Society Exams
• To Join School of Dancing & Acting, (Sir Frank Benson's Shakespearian Co)
• First world war ends

• Stella was an understudy on the Constant Nymph Tour with John Gielgud
• She returns to London with her Mother.
• A Fairy in Midsummer Nights Dream Drury Lane
• Plays an old women dying of consumption in Maxim Gorky's Lower Depths at the Gate Theatre. It ran for three weeks.
• Joins Playroom 6 in Denmark Street. An experimental theatre.
• Starts to design
• Joined Frank Benson's Shakespearean Co

• 1920 She starts to makes clothes for other actresses to wear on stage.

• 1921 Drawing of Stella by Eric Newton

• 1927 John Gielgud replaced Noel Coward in Tour of The Constant Nymph and worked with Stella (See photo's at Courtauld)

• 1929 Stage manager at the New Theatre, London. (Programs in archieves)

• 1930-1932 Assistant to George Sherringham's Savoy production of Othello
  Took over from Lovat Fraser's widow as assistant to George Sherringham.
• 1930 Grosvenor House A Park Lane Hotel Theme Persia Charity Ball on December the 18th.

• 1931 Lived in a flat in Great Russell St. Used as a workroom too

• 1932 Talk for The Religious Drama Society's summer school.

• 1933-1934 Designs a collection for the Winter Season

• Jan 6th marries Eric Newton.
• Mayfair Shop at 115a Park Street Mayfair W1
• Designed 300 costumes for T.S. Elliot's The Rock Sadler's Wells Theatre

• Designs costume for Murder in the Cathedral Canterbury Cathedral
• Dress Labels
• Photo of Salon which were designed/painted by Eric Newton
• Revue and photos (Video) Men only evening
• 1935 36 Bond Street Spring collection & Autumn collectionsInvitation cards

• 1938 Stella painted by Jean de Botton, In green dress that is now in the Gallery of English Costume,Platt Hall, Manchester. Manchester painting now owned by Isabel Nirula, a relative of Eric Newton

• 1939-1945 The War found Stella & Eric lecturing for the Cambridge University extra mural, Stella studies Italian Renaissance Art.
• 1939 The Family reunion by T S Eliot
  

• The way of the cross Pilgrim Players
• After the war The Family reunion by T S Eliot # 2

• 1941-1945 Costume design for W B Yeats Resurrection at the Mercury Theatre.

• 1945 Mercury Theatre: Ronald Duncan's The Way to the Tomb

• Her book Hyacinth Pink is published with Illustrations by James Fritton
• 1947 Murder in the Cathedral Re mounted at the Mercury Theatre

• 1949 The Religious Drama Society lecture The Designer's approach

• 1950 Designing for the Nativity Play

• 1951 The Religious Drama Society

• 1952 She wrote appendix for The Dating of Seven Paintings by Tintoretto Author: Eric Newton Gives collection of dresses & accessories to Gallery of English Costume, Platt Hall, Manchester.
• 1952-1961 Sir Philip Hendy invited her to be a consultant on dress at the National Gallery

• 1953 Magazine of Art, USA Costume in Carravagio's Painting April Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club The Study of Costume as an Aid to the dating of Italian Renaissance painting

• Costume design Peterborough Cathedral James Kirkup's Upon this rock

• 1959 Consultant to the National Gallery's catalogues The German School by Michael Levey The Sixteen Century Venetian School by Cecil Gould

• 1962 The Sixteen Century Italian School by Cecil Gould

• 1963 Early Netherlands School by Martin Davis

• 1965/1966 Eric Newton dies
• 1965-1969 Course trial at Courtauld Institute of art. Portman Square 1974 Health Art and Reason
• Meeting over setting up the course with Anthony Blunt
• 1965 Sets up the History of Dress Department at the Courtauld.

• EricNewton died 10th March 1965

• Retires from teaching
• Receives an OBE
• Renaissance Theatre Costume and the sense of the Historical Past
• 1975 Encourages Karen Finch to set up Textile conservation courses at Hampton court

• 1976 Leaves the Courtauld
• Steven Gregory moves into the top floor, through introduction of Freddy Crooke

• 1980 Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince 1340-1365
• Steven leaves the flat and Seamus McGrenera becomes Stella's lodger

• 1987 The Dress of the Venetians 1495-1525

• 1988 Festshrift in Costume No 21
• Trips to America
• 28th September: Text of lecture given at the church of St Magnus-the Martyr.

• 1991 Stella at home a commissioned portrait painted by Tim Wheeler
• 90 Birthday party on 17th April at the Art workers Guild (See 1992 Film)

• 1992 Film: Stella Mary Newton a Portrait 3.45 Tues 7th April 2001
  Directed by Roger White for YoYo Films for Channel 4

• July 2nd. Clive Wainwright, Stella's Executor Died.

• 17th April, 100 birthday party.
• 18th May Died in University College Hospital, Camden London
• 25th May A Private Cremation took place at Golders Green after a Funeral Service at the Church of the Holy Redeemer, Exmouth Market, London EC1
• 27th October The Memorial at the Church of the Holy Redeemer, Exmouth Market, London EC1

£576,875: Probate, 13 August 2001, CGPLA Eng. & Wales

Church of the Holy Redeemer, Exmouth Market, London EC1