Marjorie Wheeler-Barclay, Jane Ellen Harrison, in The Science of Religion in Britain, 1860-1915, Victorian Literature and Culture Series, University of Virginia Press, 2010, p. 231, ISBN 9780813930107. URL consultato il 12 dicembre 2012.
«[I]t was her interest in matriarchal religion and her insistence on its importance that most distinctly set her apart from other British scholars.... As early as 1900, she made note of the evidence of an older stratum of religion--the worship of earth goddesses--lying beneath Olympianism and supplanted it.»