Evangelical Revival · 1809

The Dairyman's Daughter

Legh Richmond (1772-1827)

A narrative account of Elizabeth Wallbridge, a dairyman's daughter from the Isle of Wight who died of consumption at the age of thirty, whose faith transformed her family and astonished all who knew her. First published in 1809 as part of Legh Richmond's Annals of the Poor, it became one of the most widely read religious tracts of the nineteenth century, distributed in millions of copies across dozens of languages. Richmond, an Anglican clergyman, tells the story through his own encounters with Elizabeth over the final years of her life, recording her letters, her conversations, and the death scene that gave many readers their first vivid portrait of a life hid with Christ.

2 hrs total · 8 chapters