Jane Cross Simpson (1811–1886) was a Scottish writer, known as a hymn-writer and poet.
[2] After her husband's death, Jane Simpson resided with her married daughter, Mrs. Napier, at Portobello, Edinburgh, then Newport-on-Tay, and then Aberdeen.
[2] In 1831, as "Gertrude", Jane Bell wrote a noted hymn on prayer, Go when the morning shineth, for the Edinburgh Literary Journal, then edited by her brother Henry.
Her hymns appeared in: Charles Rogers's Lyra Britannica, 1867; James Martineau's Hymns, 1873; Ebenezer Prout's Psalmist, 1878; and the Scottish Evangelical Hymnal, 1878.
Bell Simpson, an artist and bibliographer, who was librarian of the Stirling Library, Glasgow, from 1851 to 1860; he published in 1872 Literary and Dramatic Sketches, and died on 17 December 1874.