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What (who) is agony aunt - definition

JOURNALISM GENRE
Agony aunt; Agony Column; Advice columnist; Advice columns; Agony uncle; Agony aunt column; Problem page
  • The March 1990 edition of "Ask Dr. Goff", a [[medical advice]] column published in ''[[State Magazine]]''
  • Dix column, 1913

agony aunt         
(agony aunts)
An agony aunt is a person who writes a column in a newspaper or magazine in which they reply to readers who have written to them for advice on their personal problems. (BRIT; in AM, use advice columnist
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= advice columnist
N-COUNT
agony aunt         
(or agony uncle)
¦ noun Brit. informal a person who answers letters in an agony column.
Advice column         
An advice column is a column in a question and answer format. Typically, a (usually anonymous) reader writes to the media outlet with a problem in the form of a question, and the media outlet provides an answer or response.

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Advice column

An advice column is a column in a question and answer format. Typically, a (usually anonymous) reader writes to the media outlet with a problem in the form of a question, and the media outlet provides an answer or response.

The responses are written by an advice columnist (colloquially known in British English as an agony aunt, or agony uncle if the columnist is male). An advice columnist is someone who gives advice to people who send in problems to the media outlet. The image presented was originally of an older woman dispensing comforting advice and maternal wisdom, hence the name "aunt". Sometimes the author is in fact a composite or a team: Marjorie Proops's name appeared (with photo) long after she retired. The nominal writer may be a pseudonym, or in effect a brand name; the accompanying picture may bear little resemblance to the actual author.

The Athenian Mercury contained the first known advice column in 1690. Traditionally presented in a magazine or newspaper, an advice column can also be delivered through other news media, such as the internet and broadcast news media.

Examples of use of agony aunt
1. She has also penned an agony aunt column for a youth magazine.
2. The Britannia for the 50p was designed in the Sixties by artist Charles Ironside – father of agony aunt Virginia Ironside.
3. Agony aunt Virgina Ironside says her colostomy bag hasn‘t stopped her living life to the full 3.
4. Jodie, 28, from Blackpool works as an agony aunt and lives with her parents and lots of pets.
5. There was also after–dinner speaking and even an agony–aunt column for Zoo, a magazine for young men.