Rosalind Shore-Smith was born into a landowning family in Kensington, London, in December 1862. whom Florence Nightingale "regarded almost as a brother". where she became close friends with
Margaret Llewelyn Davies.
Barbara (nee Margaret Thyra Barbara Shore-Smith), Rosalind's sister, married barrister and Judge of the
Calcutta High Court Sir Harry Lushington Stephen. In 1893, Nash married the progressive economist
Vaughan Nash (1861–1932) and they lived at
Loughton in Essex. Nash was a member of the
Co-operative Women's Guild, which she referred to as "a kind of trade union" for housewives during a paper "The Position of Married Women," presented at the Guild Congress in 1907. Nash worked as a journalist, primarily writing about women's suffrage and labour issues such as the conditions of dangerous trades. She assisted in some of Nightingale's publications, and wrote on her behalf to
Karl Pearson while he was writing his
biography of
Francis Galton. After Florence Nightingale's death, her husband Vaughan Nash played an important role in collating and copying her correspondence. ==Works==