She co-founded College Hall, London, and funded and worked to get women elected to local government.

There she was educated by tutors and governesses before her family moved to London where she attended Queens College on Harley Street for a year in 1868.

[2] The two Browne sisters also worked with Octavia Hill, and with Samuel and Henrietta Barnett at Toynbee Hall.

Browne provided early funding and she, Eva McLaren, the Marchioness of Aberdeen, Louisa Temple Mallett[2] and Newnham College founder Millicent Garret Fawcett were key members.

[7] An early victory was the election of two women, Jane Cobden and Lady Margaret Sandhurst, to the London County Council.