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- Nancy Cox. "Smith, Eliza". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/52495.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Montagu of Beaulieu, Lord, "Foreword" in E. Smith, The Compleat Housewife or Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion (facsimile ed. Literary Services and Production Ltd., 1968. ISBN 0853210012)
- Theophano, Janet, "Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote", St. Martins Press, New York, p. 194.
