Side view with inscriptions on two copies, 1) "An' I wish an' I wish you were way down here in Dixie this Christmas time, Dorothy Dix." 2) "Mrs. G. M. Patch."
Dorothy Dix Collection As the forerunner of today's popular advice columnists, Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (1861-1951), writing under the pen name "Dorothy Dix," was America's highest paid and most widely read female journalist at the time of her death.