Jane Octavia Brookfield (25 March 1821 – 27 November 1896) was a literary hostess and writer, best known for her platonic friendship with William Makepeace Thackeray.

[1] Brookfield was born on 25 March 1821, the youngest daughter of Sir Charles Abraham Elton, a former soldier.

In 1838 she was courted by and became engaged to William Henry Brookfield, the priest at the local church, twelve years her senior.

[2] Jane maintained an influential literary salon, which included among others Thackeray and her husband's old college friend Alfred Tennyson.

[2] Thackeray incorporated some of her characteristics into two of his characters: Amelia Sedley in Vanity Fair (1848), and Laura Bell in Pendennis (1850).