J. Napier (Jane Napier) Brodhead

Jane Milliken Napier Brodhead, who also published as J. Napier Brodhead, was born on May 15, 1845, and died on September 9, 1915. Available library and public-domain records connect her with at least two books: Slav and Moslem, published in the 1890s, and The Religious Persecution in France 1900-1906, published in 1907.

Her work points to a writer deeply engaged with European affairs. In the preface to The Religious Persecution in France 1900-1906, she says the book grew out of pieces written during six years of residence in France and first published in the American press, which gives her writing a lived-in, reportorial quality as well as a historical one.

Biographical details about her life appear to be limited in the sources readily available online. A memorial record identifies her as Jane Milliken Napier Brodhead, notes that she was buried in Port Jervis, New York, and names Henry Brodhead as her husband.