Jeanie Donnan

Jeanie Donnan (née Munro; 19 November 1864 – 14 May 1942) was a Scottish poet known as the Galloway Poetess.[1] She was born in Gatehouse of Fleet and moved to Whithorn after her marriage to James Donnan.[1]

She was encouraged to write poetry by the minister of the Priory Church, Rev Donald Henry.[1] For forty years she contributed poems to the Poet's Corner of The Galloway Gazette.[1] John F Brown, the newspaper's editor, enlisted Dr Michael Macmillan of the University of Birmingham to collect and edit a collection of her poetry, which was published under the title Hameland in 1907.[1] She published three further collections of poetry, including War Poems (1915), the proceeds of which were given to charities associated with the war effort.[2] 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.[3]

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.[4][2]

Works

  • Hameland (1907)[5]
  • Heatherbloom: Poems and Songs (1911)
  • Warm Poems (1915, enlarged ed. 1919)
  • The Hills o' Hame (1930)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Watt, Julia Muir (2000). "Jeanie Donnan". Dumfries and Galloway: a literary guide. Dumfries and Galloway. Dumfries: Dumfries and Galloway Libraries, Information and Archives. p. 332. ISBN 978-0-946280-46-9.
  2. ^ a b Watt, Julia Muir (2000). "Jeanie Donnan". Dumfries and Galloway: a literary guide. Dumfries and Galloway. Dumfries: Dumfries and Galloway Libraries, Information and Archives. p. 333. ISBN 978-0-946280-46-9.
  3. ^ Forshaw, Charles F., ed. (1916). One Hundred of the Best Poems on the European War by Women Poets of the Empire. Vol. 2. London: Elliot Stock. pp. 56–57.
  4. ^ "Memorial to Galloway Poetess". The Scotsman. p. 3.
  5. ^ Donnan, Jeanie (1907). Hameland: The Poems of Jeanie Donnan. J.F. Brown.
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