advice columns
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Frances Foster as Advice Columnist Molly Mayfield
I found this image of Francis Foster who authored the longtime (some say first) newspaper advice column. It was published in the women’s pages.
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Thesis About Newspaper Advice Columns
I appreciate UCF’s ILL for tracking down this thesis, “A Value-Analysis of Advice Columns in Newspapers” from 1953 at the University of Texas. These columns typically ran in the women’s section of newspapers. In this study, the author examined the following columns: Mrs. Mayfield’s Mailbag (Denver Rocky Mountain News), Martha Carr’s Opinion (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), Mary Haworth’s Mail (San Jose Mercury) and The Good Neighbor/Anita Day Hubbard (San Francisco Examiner). These women will be a part of my upcoming book about women’s page journalism. I am collecting information abut them – including the work of Mary Haworth, which was the pen name for Mary Elizabeth Young. Her papers are at…
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Boston Globe’s Confidential Chat Study
I just received this interesting study about the long-running advice column in the Boston Globe, “Confidential Chat.” This research looked at columns in 1900, 1930 and 1970. It was interesting to read about how questions and answers changed over the years. I previously looked at advice columns in this book chapter and in an entry in the The Social History of the American Family: An Encyclopedia. Advice columns typically ran in the women’s pages of newspapers. The columns will be a part of my upcoming book about women’s page journalism.
