Bromley, Dorothy Dunbar, 1896-1986

Dorothy Dunbar Bromley (1897-1986), journalist and writer, was also known as Dorothy Dunbar Walker and used the pen name Stephen Ewing. She was born on a farm near Ottawa, Illinois, daughter of Helen Ewing Dunbar and Charles E. Dunbar, and graduated from Northwestern University in 1918. During her college years she served as a member of the Signal Corps. She moved to New York City, where she became a journalist; she did publicity and editorial work for Henry Holt and Company (1921-1924), wrote free-lance for magazines (1925-1952), and was a columnist and writer for the World-Telegram (1935-1937), Post (1938-1940), and Herald Tribune (1942-1952).

As a free-lance writer, Bromley wrote extensively on such issues as marriage and divorce, birth control, sexual stereotyping, women and work, and women and the legal system. The editor of the Sunday women's page of the New York Herald Tribune, she also wrote on Depression-era social welfare programs, child and domestic labor, juvenile delinquency, and criminal rehabilitation. Bromley published four books: Birth Control, Its Use and Misuse (1934), (with Florence H. Britten) Youth and Sex (1938), Catholics and Birth Control (1965), and Washington and Vietnam (1966), and conducted a radio program (1952-1958).

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