Jane Laurie Borthwick

Jane Laurie Borthwick (9 April 1813, Edinburgh, Scotland; 7 September 1897, Edinburgh, Scotland) was hymn writer, translator of German hymns and a noble supporter of home and foreign missions.[1][2][3] She worked closely with her sister, Sarah Laurie Findlater.[4] She published under the pseudonym: H. L. L. (Hymns from the Land of Luther).[2][5] Jane Laurie Borthwick is best known for the Hymns from the Land of Luther; her most famous translation today is Be still, my soul and her most known original text is Come, labor on.[2] Like Catherine Winkworth and Frances Elizabeth Cox,[6][7] she greatly contributed to English-language hymnody by mediating German hymnody.

  1. ^ Jane Laurie Borthwick, Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology, retrieved 21 December 2014
  2. ^ a b c Julian 1892, p. 163.
  3. ^ Kenneth W. Osbeck, 101 Hymns Stories, p. 38
  4. ^ Litvack, Leon (23 September 2004). "Borthwick, Jane Laurie (1813–1897), hymn writer and translator". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 1 (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/48787. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ^ Pseudonym Archived 22 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine, cyberhymnal.org, retrieved 21 December 2014
  6. ^ https://hymnary.org/person/Cox_FE>
  7. ^ "Hymns from the German Translated by Frances Elizabeth Cox". Project Gutenberg – via Internet Archive.