Marie Manning wanted to report on crimes. Instead,...  ...she did something revolutionary: She invented the advice column .(Illustrations by Julianna Brion)Marie Manning ha...  ...s that within a few years, she’d launch the advice column —a phenomenon that would not only become a n...  ...fession was...

Pauline Phillips, better known as Dear Abby, has p...  ...a housewife and mother of two, could give better advice to the readers. The editor of the paper appar...  ...he paper apparently agreed. Her first "Dear Abby" column appeared in the San Francisco chronicle on Januar...  ...t on to become the world's m...

If Dear Abby were a cat, what kind of advice would you get? Jeff Wysaski at Pleated Jeans give...

If horror writer H.P. Lovecraft were to write an advice column , it would be somewhat less useful than those of M...  ...Abby, but much more entertaining. In an imaginary column by James Warner, here is a part of the response t...  ...that point. Read several letters and Lovecraft's advi...