James Thomas Jones [Mary Leslie] (1842-1920) was, in fact, a woman and James Thomas Jones was her pen name. Mary Leslie. She taught drawing in Canada, and also wrote a great deal under the pseudonym "James Thomas Jones" or simply "J.T.J." Her first novel, The Cromaboo Mail Carrier (1878) was originally banned in Erin, Ontario, because its outspokenness offended some of the citizens.