[1][4] Her professional career began while she was yet a school girl at her home in London, Ontario, from which place she sent occasional specials to the Toronto papers.

Beginning when she was 17 years old, and using the pen name, "Willice Wharton",[4][3] Brodlique was the special representative for the London Advertiser at the House of Commons at Ottawa, being the first and the only woman who did regular telegraphic political work from the Dominion Parliament.

Although holding decided political opinions of her own, she made unbiased reports, and was equally popular with the representatives of both parties.

[4] In 1897, she represented the Chicago Times-Herald at the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in London, England.

[2] "I would rather be a poet than anything else in the world, and if I could have my heart's desire, it would be to live on the top of a mountain over-looking the sea, and enclosed in a pine forest, like the old fairy-tale heroines.

Then I would have lots of cats and dogs and horses, would dream and read all I wanted to, and get away from the noise and grime, and the chatter of words."

There was an under-current of sadness in her verses that seemed unnatural for one so young unless they understood how Brodlique had suffered: that she was the last of her name; that she had buried everyone in her family; and that she felt alone in the world.

She could jump from politics to fashion, from prose to poetry, from humor to pathos, and write a dramatic criticism as well as an article on art.

[4][14] In 1937, their son married Margaret Grace Shotwell, the daughter of Columbia University history professor James T.