MY MOTHER—PIONEER LAWYER.

MY MOTHER—PIONEER LAWYER. Our family knew the Bradleys because my mother had been the legal secretary for Herbert Bradley for many years. Herbert Bradley clearly was a feminist for his time and for any time, offering support to his wife, who was such a strong, achieving woman. I wonder if his influence helped make Alice Bradley Sheldon the strong woman she was and perhaps created some of Alice’s problems. Alice’s parents made her a woman capable of, and driven to, achievement at a time when the outside world was hostile to feminine achievement. I know that Mr. Bradley and his friend Harry Bigelow (a supporting character in the Julie Phillips book, but the Dean of the University Chicago Law School) provided essential support to my mother, who, after taking night classes, in 1938 became one of the very few women lawyers in the country.