Margaret Jones

Margaret Jones (March 1842 – 18 October 1902) was a 19th-century Welsh travel writer whose work was published under the pseudonym Y Gymraes o Ganaan.

Biography Margaret Jones was born in 1842 in Rhosllannerchrugog, Denbighshire, Wales.

As a child, she received only three weeks of schooling. She then left for Birmingham, where she worked as a maid for a Jewish family which had been converted to Christianity. It was in this role that she began travelling the world, spending two years in Paris and four in Jerusalem with the family as they performed missionary work in the Jewish communities there.

Jones became well known in Wales for writing accounts of her international travels, notably in Palestine and Morocco.

In 1869, she published Llythyrau Cymraes o Wlad Canaan, a collection of letters home from her travels in Palestine. Her subsequent memoir of her travel to Morocco, Morocco a'r hyn a welais yno, was published in 1883.