Ella Rodman Church

Eliza Rodman McIlvaine Church was an American author of fiction, children's literature, and works about homemaking. She authored as Ella Rodman and Ella Rodman Church. Her early works include a collection of short stories, Flights of Fancy (1853), and a gothic novel set in southern Italy, The Catanese; or, The Real and the Ideal (1853). She wrote many novels for children published by Christian publishers, including the Elmridge series, in which a governess teaches youngsters about the natural...See more

Eliza Rodman McIlvaine Church was an American author of fiction, children's literature, and works about homemaking. She authored as Ella Rodman and Ella Rodman Church. Her early works include a collection of short stories, Flights of Fancy (1853), and a gothic novel set in southern Italy, The Catanese; or, The Real and the Ideal (1853). She wrote many novels for children published by Christian publishers, including the Elmridge series, in which a governess teaches youngsters about the natural world. On September 21, 1855, she married Joseph Moran Church, a poet, journalist, and publisher of the Philadelphia-based magazine Church's Bizarre. In 1856, they co-edited a successor magazine, The Fireside Visitor. Ella Rodman Church died on October 25, 1912, in Kings County, New York. Floyd R. Horowitz's The Uncollected Henry James (2004) attributes a number of works published under the identities Leslie Walter and Fannie Caprice to Henry James. Lisa Nemrow discovered in 2009 that Ella Rodman Church utilized these pseudonyms. See less