Goudvis, Bertha (1876–1966)
Goudvis, Bertha (1876–1966)
South African novelist and playwright. Born Bertha Cinnamon in 1876 in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England; died 1966.
Arrived in South Africa with first wave of Jewish immigration (1881) and worked with husband as hotelier in South Africa, Southern Rhodesia, and Mozambique; also worked as journalist and wrote 1st story about Matabele Rebellion (1893); works include A Husband for Rachel (1924, reprinted as The Way the Money Goes and Other Plays, 1925), Little Eden (1949), and The Mistress of Mooiplaas and Other Stories (1956); extracts from unpublished memoir appeared in South African Rosh Hashana Annual and Jewish Year Book (1932), Jewish Affairs (1956), and South African PEN Yearbook (1956).
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