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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Legh Richmond (1772–1827)

Richmond, Legh. An English religious writer; born at Liverpool, Jan. 29, 1772; died at Turvey, Bedfordshire, May 8, 1827. He was the author of three famous tales of village life, entitled: ‘The Dairyman’s Daughter,’ ‘The Negro Servant,’ and ‘The Young Cottager,’ and printed under the title of ‘Annals of the Poor’ (1814). He also edited ‘The Fathers of the English Church’ (1807–11).