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Flora Garry was the daughter of Archie Campbell, a freelance writer who used the nom de plume of "The Buchan Farmer", and Helen Campbell, who wrote plays for radio.
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Flora Garry
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Well known for her poetry, she played an important role along with Charles Murray and John C. Milne in validating the literary use of Scots. She was brought up at Mains of Auchmunziel, near to New Deer, Buchan in Abderdeenshire. She went to school in New Deer, then went on to the Peterhead Academy and the University of Aberdeen.
She became a school teacher, and taught at Dumfries and Strichen.
They had one son, Frank. Flora Garry did not start to write poetry until World World War II, and did not publish anything until she was an old age pensioner.
Explaining why she began writing poetry so late, she said that just as happiness has no history, neither does it write poetry. She corresponded with Edith Anne Robertson (1883–1973), another Aberdeenshire poet who wrote in the Scots tongue.
Her verse collection Bennygoak was first published in 1974.
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