Elizabeth Van Lew was an insignificant character in the 1944 book "Yankee Stranger" by Elswyth Thane, the second in her Williamsburg series, and a character in "The Secrets of Mary Bowser", a novel by Lois Leveen. Her story was also fictionalized in 1995 children's book "The Secret of the Lion's Head" by Beverly Hall, the 2005 novel "Elizabeth Van Lew: Civil War Spy" by Heidi Schoof, the 2006 novel "Only Call Us Faithful: A Novel of the Union Underground" by Marie Jakober, the 2013 novel "The Spymistress" by Jennifer Chiaverini. and the 2016 novel "Crazy Bet and the Gentleman from Massachusetts" by Frederick Lapisardi.