Jane Esdon Brailsford

Jane Esdon Brailsford, , (3 April 1874 – 9 April 1937) was a Scottish suffragette.

Life Brailsford was born in Elderslie, Renfrewshire, in 1874 and was educated at the University of Glasgow, and later Somerville College, Oxford.

Suffragette activism Brailsford could not find any success at either painting or acting. She regarded her marriage as a burden, and refused to have children On 8 October she was amongst twelve who agreed to demonstrate with Christabel Pankhurst, including Constance Lytton, Annie Kenney, Kitty Marion, Emily Davison,

In October 1912 her arguments with her husband over her and the WSPU's militant struggle rose to a head as Frederick and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence were forced to leave the WSPU. Brailsford resigned too in protest.