Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
Critical and Biographical Essay by Alfred H. Miles
Jane Montgomery Campbell (1817–1878)
JANE MONTGOMERY CAMPBELL (1817–1878) contributed translations from the German to “The Garland of Song; or, an English Liederkranz” (Rev. C. S. Brere, 1862), as well as to “The Children’s Choral Book” (same editor, 1869). She also published “A Handbook for Singers.” The following, which is a portion of “Im Anfang war’s auf Erden,” is the most popular of her hymns.
