Thirza Nash

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

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, and married William Benjamin Nash in 1917. She accompanied her husband, a mining geologist, to frontier settlements in South West Africa.

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