Thirza Nash

Thirza Eagle Nash (1885 – 1962) was a South African novelist who wrote about white settler life.[1]

Life

Thirza Goch was born in Cape Colony, not far from the border with what would later be designated South West Africa. Her father was Willem Carel Goch, Wesleyan Minister and missionary at Leliefontein mission station, Namaqualand, and her mother was Louisa Anne Charleston. She studied at the Normal College of Pretoria,[2] and married William Benjamin Nash in 1917. She accompanied her husband, a mining geologist, to frontier settlements in South West Africa.[1]

Works
  • Oh, Miss Maginty!, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1920
  • The Ex-Gentleman. London: Jarrolds, 1925
  • "Detained at the Office", The 20-Story Magazine, Vol. 28. No. 168 (June 1936)
  • The Geyer Brood. London: Cassell, 1946
  • Witchweed. London: Cassell, 1947
  • For Passion is Darkness. London: Cassell, 1951

References
  1. Barbara Fister (1995). "Nash, Thirza". Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-313-28988-0.
  2. Nash, Thirza Eagle, Esaach. Accessed 13 November 2016.

Further reading
  • Haarhoff, Dorian. "Emeralds, Ex-Gentlemen, Escom and Iscor: Frontier Literature in Namibia Circa 1925", English Studies in Africa 31 (1998), pp. 1–18
  • Morgan, Lynda. "Illegitimate Bodies: Thirza Nash and the South African Settler Novel", PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), 2003
  • Morgan, Lynda (2003). "Landscapes of Guilt and Desire in the Novels of Thirza Nash". In Carlotta von Maltzan (ed.). Africa and Europe: En/countering Myths : Essays on Literature and Cultural Politics. Literary and Cultural Theory. Vol. 15. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang. pp. 147–56. ISBN 978-0-8204-6462-6.


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