had previously written. It was made into a film, along with other works Grim Justice and The Iron Stair. Post-war period These film adaptations helped her somewhat through the lean years as, following the First World War, her work fell out of favour as literary fashions changed. Her second husband, Ernest Humphreys, had also become an invalid by this point and this meant that she had to apply to charitable organisations for aid. This was not always successful. Gollan did, however, receive a Royal Bounty Fund grant in 1930 for her work and Queen Mary was reportedly listed among fans of her novels and who ordered a complete set of her works for her private bookcase. Selected publications Vivienne (1877) My Lady Coquette (1881) My Lord Conceit (1884) Good Mrs. Hypocrite (1897) Sheba (1899) A Husband of No Importance (1894) Souls (1903) Sâba Macdonald (1906) Calvary (1909) Grandmother (1927) The Wand'ring Darling (1928) Jean and Jeanette (1929) The Marriage Comedy (1934) Recollections of a Literary Life (1936) Later life and death She wrote her autobiography, Recollections of a Literary Life, in 1936, two years before her passing. In the preface, her friend Sir Philip Gibbs wrote: 'Somehow I think of “Rita”'s readers as lying on deck-chairs in pre-war summers, as tourists in Venice and other pleasant places where well-to-do English people used to take their holidays.'Eliza Humphreys died of heart failure, aged 87, on 1 January 1938 at the family home at 239 West Brow, Combe Down, Bath. Her husband, Ernest, died the following year. Personal life On 23 July 1872, aged just 22, Gollan married Karl Otto Edmund Booth, a musician, with whom she had three sons. However the marriage was an unhappy one and did not last long. She later met and married the Irish professional singer, William Ernest Humphreys, which was a happier union. The couple stayed initially in Youghal, Cork, before they eventually settled first in Bournemouth for several years, then finally in Bath, in Somerset. They had another child, a daughter called Dorothy born in 1891, and the marriage lasted until Gollan's passing in 1938. References