Rhoda Elizabeth Waterman White (March 10, 1815 – January 6, 1898) was an American author.

Much of her fiction was published under the name of a male persona, Uncle Ben of Rouses Point.

Her family was Episcopalian, but in 1834 she married an Irish Catholic lawyer, James W. White, later a judge on the Superior Court of New York.

[1][2] White's early fiction was written under the persona of "Uncle Ben", who has been described as a "wry old bachelor".

[3][2] Her work Memoir and Letters of Jenny C. White Del Bal (1868) is about the life of her deceased daughter, including her daughter's letters describing life in Panama under the rule of Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera.