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
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
- ^ ISBN 978-0-313-28988-0.
- ^ 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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