[1] As Donnelly, she wrote the column Beauty Answers for the New York Daily News[2] and other papers.
She also wrote an advice column under the byline Doris Blake for 45 newspapers served by the Daily News and Chicago Tribune syndicate.
[2] In 1920, Donnelly wrote one of the first books about weight loss,[citation needed] the bestselling How to Reduce: New Waistlines for Old[3] (D. Appleton & Company).
Just as columnists like Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren would do later, "Doris Blake" had single issue booklets available to female readers who provided a self-addressed stamped envelope, ranging from Getting and Keeping Boys Interested to What About Petting?
[4] Donnelly retired from the Daily News at the end of 1962 and died in Greenwich, Connecticut, on November 15, 1964.