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Ella Rodman Church
American writer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eliza Rodman McIlvaine Church (1831 – October 25, 1912)[1] was an American writer of fiction, children's literature, and books about homemaking. She wrote under the names Ella Rodman and Ella Rodman Church.
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![]() frontispiece to Flights of Fancy (1853) | |
Born | 1831 ![]() |
Died | October 25, 1912 ![]() Kings County ![]() |
Occupation | Writer ![]() |
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).[2] She wrote numerous books for children published by religious publishers, including the Elmridge series, where a governess instructs children about the natural world.[3]
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.[1]
Ella Rodman Church died on 25 October 1912 in Kings County, New York.[1]
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.[1]