About Jeanie Donnan
Lived 1864 – 1942 (aged 77). Jeanie Donnan was a poet.
Plaque in Whithorn, Scotland commemorating the poet Jeanie Donnan. Jeanie Donnan (née Munro; 19 November 1864 – 14 May 1942) was a Scottish poet known as the Galloway Poetess. She was born in Gatehouse of Fleet and moved to Whithorn after her marriage to James Donnan. Her poem A Plea is included in the 1916 anthology One Hundred of the Best Poems on the European War by Women Poets of the Empire.
A memorial plaque on her house (76 George St) in Whithorn was unveiled by Lady M'Culloch of Ardwall (Gatehouse of Fleet) on 2 October 1948. Heatherbloom: Poems and Songs (1911) Warm Poems (1915, enlarged ed. 1919) The Hills o' Hame (1930)
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poet (1866 - 1942)
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Jeanie Donnan was born on 19 November 1864.
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Jeanie Donnan died on 14 May 1942.
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Jeanie Donnan was a poet.
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