A Collection of Legh Richmond includes Five Writings of Faith including: The Cottage Conversation, The Dairyman's Daughter, The Young Cottager, Visit to the Infirmary, The African Servant. Richmond's writings are popular due to their simple pathos and piety. Legh Richmond was powerfully influenced by William Wilberforce's Practical View of Christianity. His best known writing is The Dairyman's Daughter, of which is estimated to have sold as many as four million copies by the mid 1900's was published in over 20 languages and continues to sell well today.
Legh Richmond (1772–1827) was a Church of England clergyman and writer. He is noted for tracts, narratives of conversion that innovated in the relation of stories of the poor and female subjects, and which were subsequently much imitated. He was also known for an influential collection of letters to his children, powerfully stating an evangelical attitude to childhood of the period, and by misprision sometimes taken as models for parental conversation and family life, for example by novelists, against Richmond's practice.
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