Marie Manning (writer)
Marie Manning ( born January 22, 1872 in Washington DC, † November 28, 1945 same place ), pseudonym Beatrice Fairfax, was an American writer and author of Dear Beatrice Fairfax (Love Beatrice Fairfax ), the first newspaper column in the U.S., the advice was issued to personal issues.
Biography
Marie Manning was born in 1872, year of her birth, however, she gave her life even her closest family and friends with 1878; until after her death was her son Oliver Gasch on production of documents the actual date out. Manning's mother, Elizabeth Barrett died at Marie's birth. Marie Manning attended several private schools in Washington and eventually earned a degree of "Miss Kerr 's". When she was 18 years old, her father died, Michael Charles Manning. Marie then went to the early 1890s to relatives in England, where she met the British society. Here she wrote her first book, Long Alingham, Bankrupt, which was published in 1901.
Back in the USA Manning began in 1896 to write for the newspaper New York World, initially for five dollars per week. Your salary rose to $ 30 after they had reached an exclusive interview with Grover Cleveland, the current President of the United States. As the editor of New York World, Arthur Brisbane, 1897 joined the New York Evening Journal, followed him along with other of her colleagues also Manning. At her new job, she worked with two other women together to create the women's side Hen Coop ( about Hennstall ) and also wrote about sensational crime stories.
1898 reached the newspaper three letters to the editor, in which was asked for advice for personal problems. When Manning was asked of Brisbane, to write an article about it, they proposed instead a new column before that was to devote himself exclusively personal advice - a journalistic form that previously did not exist in the USA. On Manning also the pseudonym used by her Beatrix Fairfax (and therefore the commonly held name of the column, Dear Beatrice Fairfax - Fairfax love Beatrix ) goes back - named after Dante's Beatrice and the former home of Manning's family in Fairfax County, Virginia. The proposed name Beatrix Fairfax Brisbane liked among several ideas that were called by the journalists of the Evening Journal, the best; Brisbane decided that Manning should write the new column. The idea of publishing the column under the actual name of Manning or another journalist, was not even considered: In 1898, it was still considered something unseemly for a woman to print something under their name.
As of July 20, 1898, the new column questions appeared in the Manning under the pseudonym Beatrice Fairfax to love themes with common sense answered. Reader questions concerned how one could win the heart of a man, how to keep a woman or what intimacies were allowed in different situations, and Manning replied on the basis of some fixed rules of conduct and to the motto: " Dry your eyes, roll up your sleeves, and dig for a practical solution. " the column was immediately a great success in the wedding of tabloid journalism in the United States. There were up to 1,400 letters per day - so many that the mail soon refused to deliver it, and then the newspaper 's letters - had to pick himself - of two strong men. Nationally, there were imitators of the format. But while the name of her pseudonym was known nationally, Manning himself remained largely anonymous. They also received their newspaper hardly recognition, their salary and their position remained low, after which they finally announced.
1905 married Manning the Realtor Herman Gash ( she was called henceforth Marie Manning Gash ) and devoted himself mainly as a result their two sons. However Freelance they continued to write, and her short stories published in various magazines, including Harper's Monthly and Ladies' Home Journal. They also sat down for increasing the rights of women, which was also already been her in her time as a journalist a concern.
The financial situation of the Gash family was difficult, and Manning invested an inheritance of her father in high- listed shares. 1929, when she lost her money in the crash, Manning returned to the New York Evening Journal, and took the Beatrix Fairfax column on again, in the meantime - was published in nearly 200 newspapers - written by a different ghostwriter. While originally mainly young, unmarried women had written the letters to the editor from a young age until the 20s, now attributed mainly older readers; almost half of them were men. The column was so popular that George and Ira Gershwin could start the song But Not for Me their musical Girl Crazy (1930 ) with the words Beatrice Fairfax do not you dare / Ever tell me he will care .... (about Beatrice Fairfax, never dare to tell me, it would be important to him ....).
Manning wrote the column until her death of a heart attack 1945. 's Column was continued for about 20 years.
Novels
- Lord Alingham, Bankrupt (1902 )
- Judith of the Plains (1903), electronic copies of the Gutenberg Project
- Staff Reply (1943 )
- Ladies Now and Then (1945 )