Eliza Rodman McIlvaine Church (1831 – October 25, 1912) was an American writer of fiction, children's literature, and books about homemaking. She wrote under the names Ella Rodman and Ella Rodman Church.
She was born Ella Rodman Mcllvaine, the daughter of Cornelius Prall Mcllvaine and Harriet Robinson.
Her early fiction includes 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 numerous books for children published by religious publishers, including the Elmridge series, where a governess instructs children 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 Bizzare. Together they edited a successor magazine, The Fireside Visitor, in 1856.
Ella Rodman Church died on 25 October 1912 in Kings County, New York.
In The Uncollected Henry James (2004), Floyd R. Horowitz attributed a number of stories published under the names Leslie Walter and Fannie Caprice to Henry James. In 2009, Lisa Nemrow established that those were pseudonyms used by Ella Rodman Church.
