About This Book
Eliza Margaret Jane Gollan, Mrs. Von Booth later Mrs. Humphreys (1856-1938), was a prolific British author who wrote over 70 novels under the pseudonym Rita. Her works include: Vivienne (1877), Like Dian's Kiss (1878), Faustine (1882), After Long Grief and Pain (1883), The Mystery of a Turkish Bath (1888), The Doctor's Secret (1890), A Society Scandal (1890), The Man in Possession (1893), The Ending of My Day (1894), Vignettes (1896), Good Mrs. Hypocrite (1897), Petticoat Loose (1898), Adrienne: A Romance of French Life (1898), The Sin of Jasper Standish (1901), The Jesters (1903), The Masqueraders (1904), Queer Lady Judas (1905), Saba Macdonald (1906), The Pointing Finger (1907), The House Called Hurrish (1909), America: Through English Eyes (1911), Only an Actress (1911), The House Opposite (1912), The Make-Believers (1920) and her autobiography Recollections of a Literary Life (1936).
