The Dairyman's Daughter By Pastor Legh Richmond PREFACE: The Dairyman's Daughter is the true account of the life of Betsey Wallbridge , a young woman who lived on the Isle of Wight, in the English Channel. She died there at the age of 31, in 1801. Her name, her surroundings, her conversion and death...
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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.