(Excerpt from My Joy-Ride Round the World
MY joy-ride aro...)
Excerpt from My Joy-Ride Round the World
MY joy-ride around the world really began on a rainy Saturday afternoon in New York. It had been a ghastly day, and as I looked, for the hundredth time, across a sodden court at the fourteen rows of dull and staring windows in the opposite wall, that always made me think of the eyes in an idiot's face, I had a swift revulsion against it all, and I realized that I was sick of the great city, sick of my work, sickest of all of myself, and that there was no health in me.
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Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer was an American journalist and newspaper columnist, widely known by the pen name Dorothy Dix.
Background
Gilmer was born on November 18, 1861, in Montgomery County, Tennessee, the daughter of William Douglas Meriwether and his wife, whose name cannot be traced. Her family, part of the slave-owning Southern aristocracy prior to the Civil War, retained little but their rich farmlands following the surrender of the Confederacy.
Education
Gilmer graduated from Hollins Institute in 1883.
Career
Gilmer was forced to seek employment, when her husband was stricken with an incurable mental disease that left him incapacitated until his death in 1931. She herself suffered a breakdown and while recovering at a Gulf resort began writing short sketches of her life and acquaintances. A neighbor, Eliza Peitevent Nicholson, owner of the New Orleans Picayune, read one of these short descriptions and gave Gilmer her first job as a reporter and writer on the newspaper, where her main task was a column of advice to "womankind" entitled "Sunday Salad. " Since no respectable woman would, in 1896, use her own name in journalistic writing, Gilmer then chose the name under which she wrote throughout her long career. She chose "Dorothy" because she was fond of the name and "Dix" for a former slave who had been with the family during the Civil War. During her time on the Picayune, Gilmer became an assistant to the editor, Nathaniel Burbank, and also edited the women's department. Her reputation as a writer attracted the attention of William Randolph Hearst, whose New York Journal she joined in 1901. Although she continued to write her advice column, entitled "Dorothy Dix Talks, " the Hearst management saw a greater potential in her crisp sentences and her ability to extract confidences from people. Her editors also liked her unsophisticated Tennessee background and the maturity of her approach to problems, to which her tragic marriage had contributed greatly; they exploited her special qualities in assigning her to cover most of the famous American murder trials involving women over the next fifteen years. She thus wrote about Harry K. Thaw, Stanford White, and Nan Patterson; her last such assignment was the Hall-Mills case. By 1917 Gilmer had grown tired of sensational courtroom scenes and found herself much more committed to writing her columns of advice to the lovelorn. When, in that year, the Wheeler Syndicate offered her a position in which she could devote full time to her column, she accepted. While with the Wheeler Syndicate, she began publishing actual letters to fill half her columns, a practice that continued until her death. In 1933 she joined the Bell Syndicate, and she continued writing for it until the end of her career, during World War II. At the peak of her career, some 2, 000 persons wrote each day seeking her common-sense advice and some 60, 000, 000 daily read her column. Her published works, in addition to her newspaper writings, include Mirandy (1914); and Mirandy Exhorts (1922); Hearts . .. la Mode (1915); Dorothy Dix, Her Book (1926); and How to Win and Hold a Husband (1939). She died on December 16, 1951.