What is recorded here
This white commemorative plaque records: This plaque is a tribute to the memory of Jeanie Donnan, The Galloway Poetess, who lived here. Born at Gatehouse of Fleet 19th November 1866, she died here 14th May 1942. Erected by public subscription which was sponsored by J Kevan McDowall, president of the Galloway Association of Glasgow and John F Brown MBE of the Galloway Gazette, who was the first publisher of the poetess. Recorded plaque organisation: Galloway Association.
Jeanie Donnan, known as The Galloway Poetess, is remembered for her contributions to Scottish literature through her dialect poetry that captured the essence of rural Galloway life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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