First released on August 7, 1916, the series consists of 15 weekly episodes and features the character of "Beatrice Fairfax" (Grace Darling).

In the films, the Beatrice character was portrayed as a resourceful agony aunt-cum-crimefighter, working with her reporter colleague Jimmy Barton to investigate and solve the problems sent in by her troubled readers.

The Dear Beatrice Fairfax advice column was started by journalist Marie Manning on July 20, 1898, and ran in newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst.

Nitrate copies of all the episodes, except the first, survived because they were preserved in the collection of Hearst's mistress Marion Davies, which was eventually transferred to the Library of Congress.

"[2] Ithaca based songwriter Anna Coogan wrote and performed a filmscore and operetta for episode 7 "A Name for the Baby (or) The Curse of Eve" (2018) Beatrice Fairfax is featured in the lyrics to But Not for Me, a popular song of 1930 by George Gershwin.