Jane Brownlow

Jane Macnaughton Egerton Brownlow (née Morgan; 1854/55 – 14 November 1928) was a British educationist, writer, translator and suffragist.

Biography Brownlow was born in Paisley in 1854 or 1855 to Lt.-Col. George Bernard Morgan and Jane Macnaughton. Her father was in the military and he was the town major in Gibraltar. She married at the King's Chapel, Gibraltar, Captain Edward Francis Brownlow on 20 August 1872. She was in Gibraltar until her husband died in 1875, when she moved to England.

She took an interest in the working conditions of women and children. She noted that the laws to restrict the night work of men rarely covered professions like dancing or nursing and other professions associated with women. She was asked by the Women's Trade Union League to sit on a committee that was to look at the role of wage earning children and to advise on reform. Other members included socialist Margaret Macdonald and Ruth Homan. in Aberystwyth. The following year she seconded a motion at the Women's Liberal Federation to remove the support of Liberal candidates who opposed women's suffrage. The proposal caused, but was lost after, an acrimonious debate. Brownlow was later quoted at a public debate as saying, "I will not lift a finger to help any man who will not help my sisters".

Works Women's Work in Local Government, England and Wales. London: David Nutt, 1911 The English Woman: Studies in her Psychic Evolution by David Staars was translated & abridged by Brownlow from French in 1909 (London: Smith, Elder, 1909) Women and Factory Legislation. London: Women's Printing Society, 1896 (a pamphlet)