19th-Century Australian Travel Writing
Mrs. Henry Jones (Frances Eliza nee Caton later Callander 1832-1928) was poet and sketch artist who grew up in Wales and migrated to South Australia with her husband Henry Jones. They established Binnum Binnum Station in South Australia. Broad Outlines of Long Years in Australia provides a sketch of her real experience during many years in the Australian bush. She prefaces the work by stating she did not pretend it to be a novel, rather Jones wrote the narrative to counter the thoughts of many people in Britain who pictured life in the colonies to be as constitutive of hardships, where emigration was essentially banishment from civilisation. In the book Jones described the voyage to Australia, Melbourne, Aboriginal peoples and their customs, life in the bush, and advocated the quality of life and opportunities available in the colonies.
