Sarah Johanna Williams

Williams, Sarah Johanna, 1805-1841. Daughter of the biographer of Belsham, Rev. John Williams, minister at Mansfield. She contributed various poems to the Liverpool Sacred Offering. In the vol. for 1834 is the poem, "Quiet from God! it cometh not to still The vast and high aspirings of the soul," from which the hymn, “Quiet from God! how blessed 'tis to keep," Rest in God, is adapted in Martineau’s Hymns of Praise and Prayer, also in J. P. Hopp’s Collection

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)