Although the relationship between Edmund Husserl and Edith Stein is well documented in phenomenological research, Stein’s particular contributions and her changing attitude to Husserlian phenomenology are less frequently appraised and reconstructed into the gradual steps that led her to her own phenomenological concepts. In what follows, I would like to contribute to filling this gap with a few historical facts and a description of the phenomenological perspective of Edith Stein. The aim of my paper is to shed light on the points of commonality and divergence between Husserl and Stein by reference to the historical facts, and to show the point where these two thinkers divide from each other. In the first part of this paper, I will retrace the common period between Husserl and Stein with some reflections on their individual objectives, while in the second part I will give further reflections on Edith Stein’s thinking and on her individual contribution to phenomenological thought in general.