[PW] Anachronisms

Mon Jan 14 09:46:16 PST 2008

"Dorothy Dix" (Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer) started her similar (and
also wildly popular) column in New Orleans in 1896
(http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,792820,00.html?promoid
=googlep).  She and Beatrice Fairfax appear to have been pioneers, and
it seems unlikely that there were any popular advice columnists in 1894.

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The closest equivalent at the time would have been the wildly popular
"Beatrice Fairfax" at the New York _Evening Journal_...though even she
didn't premiere until 1898. There's a good American Heritage article
about
the Fairfax phenomenon at
http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1992/3/1992_3_90.sh
tml.

Kathy Harper

On Jan 14, 2008 10:11 AM, Fuller, Thomas (US - Washington D.C.) <
tfuller at deloitte.com> wrote:

> Question 1:  As far as I can tell, Miss Lonelyhearts was the creation
of
> Nathanael West in his 1933 novel, and is therefore totally out of the
> picture in 1894.  Anybody have anything to the contrary?
>

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