[1] Jane Bridge was originally from Weybridge, England, where she was born on 18 October 1944;[1] her father was a lawyer and later a judge.
She matriculated at Somerville College, Oxford in 1963, but her studies were interrupted by a diagnosis of lupus; she resumed reading mathematics there in 1964, tutored by Anne Cobbe.
She earned a first, won a Junior Mathematical Prize, and continued at Oxford for graduate study.
[2][4] She then became a tutorial fellow in mathematics at Somerville College, taking Anne Cobbe's position after Cobbe's retirement, and a member of the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, working among others there with Dana Scott.
She obtained a visiting professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,[1] and then in 1979 began working at Mathematical Reviews, where she would remain for the rest of her career.