Excerpt from The Fathers of the English Church, or a Selection From the Writings of the Reformers and Early Protestant Divines, of the Church of England, Vol. 8: Containing Nowell's Catechism; Archbishop Parker's Prefaces to the Bible; Various Tracts Annexed to the Geneva Bible, Liturgy, &C.; Haddon and Fox Against Osorius
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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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