LCNA, 26 October 2018 (hdg.: Rita, 1860-1938; 1860 should read 1850)
BL H&SS, 30 July 1997 (hdg.: Rita, 1860-1938)
Her Sheba, 1889 t.p. (Rita)
LC in OCLC, 12/27/83 (hdg.: Humphreys, Eliza Margaret J. Gollan; Humphreys, Eliza Margaret J. (Gollan), Mrs.; usage: Rita; Mrs. Desmond Humphreys)
The jesters, 1904 (Rita)
UNM/Canadiana files (hdg.: Humphreys, Mrs. Eliza M. J. (Gollan); usage: Rita; Mrs. Desmond Humphreys)
Dictionary of National Biography, online, viewed 26 October 2018 (Humphreys [née Gollan], Eliza Margaret Jane [pseud. Rita; known as Mrs W. Desmond Humphreys] (1850–1938); novelist, was born on 14 June 1850 at Gollanfield, Inverness-shire; died of heart failure at 239 West Brow, Combe Down, Bath, on 1 January 1938)
Wikipedia, viewed 26 October 2018 (Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys (14 June 1850 – 1 January 1938) (born Gollan) was an English novelist.)
Jones, Paul. Rita the Forgotten Author : Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys, 1850-1938, 2011 (she was not born in 1860, as is incorrectly stated by several sources)
Rita, Recollections of a literary life, 1936 (page 16: between three and four years of age when her father decided to emigrate to Australia; page 24: verging upon fourteen when family decided to return to England; page 53: in Sheba, her first real success, “I gave a description of my childish days in Australia”)