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About J. S. 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. She worked closely with her sister, Sarah Laurie Findlater. She published under the pseudonym: H. L. L. (Hymns from the Land of Luther). 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. Like Catherine Winkworth and Frances Elizabeth Cox, she greatly contributed to English-language hymnody by mediating German hymnody.

J. S. Borthwick writes about Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Teachers, fiction, Sarah Deane (Fictitious character), Fiction, Deane, sarah (fictitious character), fiction, and Women detectives. Their best-known work is The case of the hook-billed kites.

On FindMyTBR we track 13 books by J. S. Borthwick, 13 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Bodies of Water (Unabridged), Coup de Grace: A Sarah Deane Mystery, Book 10 (Unabridged), and Dolly Is Dead (Unabridged). Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.