[PW] Anachronisms

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If this information is correct, it would be plausible for an advice column to be in publication in 1894.
   
  According to The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago of the Chicago Historical Society  
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/25.html 
   
  "Advice columns have a long history in American journalism, reaching back to the 
“letters to the lovelorn” that appeared in eighteenth-century magazines and 
newspapers."

"Early, Charles T. (GSFC-272.0)[LIBRY]" <charles.t.early at nasa.gov> wrote:
  "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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