Sibyl Margaretta Phillips, BA Hons, PhD.

Sibyl Phillips lives in Northamptonshire, UK. She was awarded a doctorate from the University of Leicester after research as a mature student in its Centre for English Local History. Her recently published book, Glorious Hope: Women and Evangelical Religion in Kent and Northamptonshire, 1800-1850, is a development of her Ph.D. investigations.

For Sibyl Phillips, her interest in the local history of Evangelicalism has stemmed from her Welsh heritage.

Daniel Rowland (1711-90), one of her ancestors, has been recognised as a powerful leader of the Great Evangelical Awakening in Wales. Rowland was a personal friend of the Rev. Thomas Jones (1753-1845) of Creaton and Spratton, Northamptonshire, whose letters to daughters of the family, with whom he lodged at their local coaching inn for over fifty years, are discussed in part of Glorious Hope. This book is the author's first full-length publication.

For further information, please visit the page on Glorious Hope.

The Rev. Thomas Jones, of Creaton (1753-1845)	William Carey (1761-1831)