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.
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