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(Magdalena G. Jalandoni  poses before her portrait, with niece Ofelia J. Jardenil.)
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Her works span from the coming of Malay settlers in the Middle Ages up to the Spanish and American colonial eras as well as the Japanese occupation of World War II, all portraying the history of Panay and the evolution of the Ilonggo culture.
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Her famous poem <i>"Ang Guitara"</i> (The Guitar) is read in classrooms all over the country today.
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Her other famous works include <i>"Anabella"</i>,  <i>"Sa Kapaang Sang Inaway"</i> (In the Heat of War), <i>"Ang Dalaga sa Tindahan"</i> (The Young Woman in the Store) and <i>"Ang Kahapon ng Panay"</i> (The Past of Panay).
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Throughout her turbulent and displaced life, she still managed to publish 36 novels, 122 short stories, 7 novelettes, 7 long plays, 24 short plays and <i>dialogos</i> in verse complied in two volumes, seven volumes of personally compiled essays including some translations from Spanish and two autobiographies. 
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May 27, 1893: Magdalena Jalandoni was born in Jaro, Iloilo City