Editing Mary Stewart (novelist) (section)

== Personal life ==
Mary Rainbow met and married her husband, [[Frederick Stewart (geologist)|Frederick Stewart]], a young Scot lecturer in Geology, whilst they were both working at Durham University. They were married by her father in September 1945 after having met at a VE Day dance;<ref name=":1" /> their engagement was announced in ''[[The Times]]'' only one month after they met.<ref>{{Cite web |title="Marriages." Times [London, England] 11 June 1945: 7. The Times Digital Archive. |url=http://find.galegroup.com.nls.idm.oclc.org/ttda/newspaperRetrieve.do?sgHitCountType=None&sort=DateAscend&tabID=T003&prodId=TTDA&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchId=R2&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=1&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28tx%2CNone%2C7%29rainbow%3AAnd%3ALQE%3D%28da%2CNone%2C23%2906%2F07%2F1945+-+06%2F19%2F1945%24&retrieveFormat=MULTIPAGE_DOCUMENT&userGroupName=nlibscot&inPS=true&contentSet=LTO&&docId=&docLevel=FASCIMILE&workId=&relevancePageBatch=CS118440139&contentSet=UDVIN&callistoContentSet=UDVIN&docPage=article&hilite=y&tabLimiterIndex=&tabLimiterValue= |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818074418/https://auth.nls.uk/login/?qurl=http%3A%2F%2Ffind%2Egalegroup%2Ecom%2Fttda%2FnewspaperRetrieve%2Edo%3FsgHitCountType%3DNone%26sort%3DDateAscend%26tabID%3DT003%26prodId%3DTTDA%26resultListType%3DRESULT%5FLIST%26searchId%3DR2%26searchType%3DBasicSearchForm%26currentPosition%3D1%26qrySerId%3DLocale%2528en%252C%252C%2529%253AFQE%253D%2528tx%252CNone%252C7%2529rainbow%253AAnd%253ALQE%253D%2528da%252CNone%252C23%252906%252F07%252F1945%2B%2D%2B06%252F19%252F1945%2524%26retrieveFormat%3DMULTIPAGE%5FDOCUMENT%26userGroupName%3Dnlibscot%26inPS%3Dtrue%26contentSet%3DLTO%26docId%3D%26docLevel%3DFASCIMILE%26workId%3D%26relevancePageBatch%3DCS118440139%26contentSet%3DUDVIN%26callistoContentSet%3DUDVIN%26docPage%3Darticle%26hilite%3Dy%26tabLimiterIndex%3D%26tabLimiterValue%3D |archive-date=18 August 2021 |access-date=25 July 2018 |website=Times Digital Archive}}</ref> At 30, she suffered an [[ectopic pregnancy]], undiagnosed for several weeks, and as a consequence could not have children.

In 1956, they moved to [[Edinburgh]], where he became professor of geology and mineralogy, and later chairman of the Geology Department at [[University of Edinburgh]].<ref name="mstew" /> 

In 1974, Mary's husband Frederick Stewart was knighted and she became Lady Stewart, although she never used the title. Her husband died in 2001.<ref name="mstewh">{{cite web |last=Pearce |first=Wright |date=19 December 2001 |title=Sir Frederick Stewart |url=http://education.guardian.co.uk/obituary/story/0,12212,750179,00.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050313234914/http://education.guardian.co.uk/obituary/story/0,12212,750179,00.html |archive-date=13 March 2005 |access-date=28 May 2007 |work=The Guardian}}</ref>

In semi-retirement Stewart resided in Edinburgh as well as near [[Loch Awe]]. An avid gardener, Mary and her husband shared a keen love of nature. She was also fond of her cat Tory, a black and white female, who lived to be eighteen.<ref>{{cite book |last=Tangye |first=Derek |title=Sun on the Lintel |year=1976 |page=83 |author-link=Derek Tangye}}</ref>

Mary Stewart died on 9 May 2014.<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |last=Hore |first=Rachel |date=15 May 2014 |title=Mary Stewart obituary |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/15/mary-stewart |url-status=live |access-date=16 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210211010942/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/15/mary-stewart |archive-date=11 February 2021}}</ref><ref name="nytimes">{{cite news |last=Gates |first=Anita |date=15 May 2014 |title=Mary Stewart, British Writer Who Spanned Genres, Dies at 97 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/16/books/mary-stewart-british-writer-who-spanned-genres-dies-at-97.html |url-status=live |access-date=16 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128220331/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/16/books/mary-stewart-british-writer-who-spanned-genres-dies-at-97.html |archive-date=28 January 2021}}</ref> Her entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography was added in 2022.<ref name=":1" />