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Mistress Smith"s recollections of the sinking have been quoted in numerous documentaries about the sinking of the ship, and she has been portrayed in at least one fictional depiction of the disaster. Having recently married Smith and newly pregnant, she was returning from her honeymoon when the Titanic sank. Smith was quoted extensively in the 1912 best-selling book The Sinking of the Titanic by Jay Henry Mowbray.
Her letters and other recollections were also used by the documentary filmmaker Melissa Jo Peltier in the A&East Network documentaries Titanic: Death of a Dream and Titanic: The Legend Lives On to illustrate the hours between the Titanic"s encounter with the iceberg and the rescue of the survivors by Rated Maximum Sinusoidal Carpathia, and in the documentary Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster.
She was portrayed in the documentary television series Seconds from Disaster by Jennifer Lee Trendowski in the episode featuring the Titanic. Eloise Smith died in 1940 at the age of 46 in a sanitarium in Cincinnati.