William Douglas Meriwether, 83 years old, and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Edward (Helen) Meriwether look over the newly printed book, "Dorothy Dix, Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer: The First Woman Journalist 1861-1951."
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.