How familiar are you with the Victorian-era newspaper feature known as the Agony Column? You are likely familiar with its methods and central plot lines, even if you don’t know what it is!

Every so often all who seek to peer into the English heart must scan the famed "Agony Column" (Want Ads) of the London Times. Last week in a single issue, on a single page, occurred the ...

Our “agony aunts” are just more likely to provide a dose of Jewish motherly — or fatherly — advice, and to pepper their answers with Yiddish. As for the questions, they no longer come in ...

We explore this cultural fascination in the exhibition News and Novel Sensations online through the McGill Library. Our research team scraped 650 000 sentences from the Agony Column of The Times ...

Most famed of “agony columns” is that of the London Times. In its front page, packed tight with seven columns of classified advertisements, are found those anguished messages from “Faithful ...

Today, advice columns do not merely explain how to have better sex; they show photos. A typical week for the mass-market Sun newspaper’s “Dear Deidre” column includes such conundrums as “I ...