b. 1840 Author of "My soul, awake, thy rest forsake" in The Hymnal of Praise 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