Thirza Nash
Thirza Eagle Nash (1885 – 1962) was a South African novelist who wrote about white settler life. Life. Thirza Goch was born in South Africa, not far from the border with 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.