Eliza Westbury

Eliza Westbury (1808-28), was a Baptist hymn writer from Hackleton, near Northampton, whose thin volume, Hymns by a Northamptonshire Village Female: to which is added a Short Account of her Life (Northampton: F. Cordeux for T. Wheeler, 1828) was published just after her death in 1828 in Northampton (copy at the Record Office). See Sybil Phillips, ‘A Northamptonshire Lacemaker: An Introduction to the Life, Hymns and Poetry of Eliza Westbury (1808-28)’, Baptist Quarterly 41 (October 2006), 480-94.