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Dear Mrs. Griggs. Women Readers Pour Out Their Hearts From The Heartland (Diederich Studies in Media and Communication)

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Before Dear Abby or Ann Landers, an advice columnist beloved as Dear Mrs. Griggs already had dispensed wisdom to millions of readers for decades. Indeed, the iconic Ione Quinby Griggs became legendary for her longevity of more than half a century in the advice industry, because she colluded with her columns readers by empowering them to set the agenda of their page, the back page of the newspaper. Their letters incessantly foreshadowed front-page news in addition to brand new social media in the collaboration that created a forerunner in their more sociable media. A type of community forum, the column provides a literal mother lode for research into her readers letters on their day by day lives and on a regular basis concerns, in their own and incessantly colorful words. The result is a unique social history of a region, a class, and a gender rarely represented in histories: Generations of Midwestern women in a working-class city, in addition to surrounding rural areas that soon became suburbs, where day by day reading of Dear Mrs. Griggs became probably the most continuities in their lives, amid major societal conflicts and controversies in the mid-twentieth century.

Readers of Dear Mrs. Griggs made their back page the most efficient-read page of the newspaper for decades. From the Depressions depths in the 1930s into new workplaces for women at the wartime homefront in the 1940s, from urban ethnic enclaves to homes of their own and spiked kaffeeklatsches in new postwar suburbs in the 1950s, from the brand new womens movement in the 1960s and 1970s into the conservative revolution of the 1980s, her faithful readers across the Heartland penned heartfelt and occasionally hilarious letters on their issues in their times.

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