b. 1840 Author of "My soul, awake, Thy rest forsake" in Life-Time Hymns Livock, Jane Elizabeth, was born at Norwich in 1840. Her hymn "My soul awake! Thy rest forsake" (Morning) was written for a prize competition in 1880, first published in the Sunday School Chronicle, and then given in the Congregational Church Hymnal, 1887.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Jane E. Livock