Family photograph of Dorothy Dix, her sister Mary Patch, (and family?) the father William Douglas Meriwether (in their later years) and eight other family members.
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.