Old Photograph Jeanie Deans Tombstone Scotland

Old photograph of grave of Jeanie Deans in the parish of Irongray about six miles from Dumfries, Scotland. Jeanie Deans is a fictional character in the novel The Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott. She was one of Scott's most celebrated characters during the 19th century; she was renowned as an example of an honest, upright, sincere, highly religious person. She became so popular that her name was given to ships, railway locomotives, pubs and many other things. He wrote in his introduction to the book that he had learned the story from an unsigned, undated letter, whose writer had learned it in turn from a Mrs. Helen Lawson Goldie of Dumfries. The original of Jeanie Deans was Helen Walker, whose experience was more austere than the fiction Scott wrote. Helen Walker died in late 1791. Sir Walter Scott erected a monument at Helen Walker's grave in the parish of Irongray, about six miles from Dumfries.



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