[1] After completing school, Brosseau worked as a journalist for a local newspaper and later wrote stories and special articles for magazines.

"[2][3] In June 1928, Helen Tufts Bailie was expelled from the DAR for publishing a pamphlet called Our Threatened Heritage, which openly protested the blacklist.

[2][4] She appealed her expulsion but only received one dissenting vote from the congress, over which Brosseau presided.

[1] Also during her administration, the Daughters of the American Revolution dedicated a memorial to its four founders, Mary Smith Lockwood, Mary Desha, Ellen Hardin Walworth, and Eugenia Washington, with a sculpture by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney at DAR Constitution Hall.

"[2] Following a hearing in the Connecticut Superior Court, in which Brosseau testified that her husband physically assaulted her and witness testimony was given by Mrs. Wilson Felder, Judge Anthony C. Baldwin granted the divorce.