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An outstanding reporter and the
'Mother Confessor to
ons
made her writing debut in New Orleans 101
years ago
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Top of page, Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer as a young woman; above, a sketch of Gilmer (AKA Dorothy Dix) that was used with an article about her in the New York Herald in 1906; right, the advice columnist in later life; far right, at a 1941 social gathering.