Welcome!

From 1997 to 2026, I ~ Abigail Grotke, aka Miss Abigail ~ selected quotes, tidbits, and words of wisdom from my collection of classic advice books in a quest to solve the modern-day dilemmas of everyday people. The books spanned from 1822 to 1978 and the advice covered the age-old topics of dating, love, living together, marriage, health, beauty, puberty, sex, etiquette, housekeeping, home economics, and home repairs.

After too many years of not updating my site, and feeling a bit guilty about it, in summer 2026 I decided to take it down for good. The internet is getting weirder (not in a good way), the bots attacking everything all the time, and I wasn't keeping up. It's a whole lot less fun so it felt like a good time to say goodbye.

If you are craving some classic advice and want to look back at the old site, thankfully there is the wonderful world of web archiving. Libraries and archives preserved my site (and do so for many others) so that researchers today and in the future can look back and experience what the web used to be. Here are a few links to get you started!

• The Library of Congress Web Archive preserved missabigail.com from 2002-2025
  
• Internet Archive has versions of missabigail.com going back to 1999. They also archived an earlier version from before I got my own domain, and the webzine where Miss Abigail got her start in the 1990s: Chew-the-Parasite.com.

Thank you all so much for visiting me here and supporting me, my site and book, and the Off-Broadway play if you got to see that. And thank you for celebrating the joy of classic advice with me.

Love,
Miss Abigail

© Abigail Grotke. Site hosted by the fabulous MuseArts.