She was one of the first women to be married in the register offices in Bristol before she emigrated to the Australian State of Victoria.
[2] She stayed with a Chartist family and attended Sunday School where there were intense debates about the morality of the Opium wars between Britain and China.
The poet Bernard O'Dowd put together the Australasian Secular Association Lyceum Tutor which was a collection of non-religious writing.
[6] Fryer and her husband resisted and they were unfairly accused of misusing funds and of wanting anarchy.
[6] In 1889 Bernard O'Dowd married her daughter, Evangeline Mina Fryer (11 May 1865 – 7 Apr 1956) although the couple later separated.
The O'Dowds and Jane and John Fryer lived in the same house for three years in North Melbourne.