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Originally Posted by Strether
Or, you might learn that Darcy's annual income was nearly half a million pounds. Certainly puts his buying off Wickham in context. Chump change. 
Jim |
Some would say even more, because you have to consider the fact that he didn't have to pay income tax (though there were other taxes to pay that aren't paid these days) and that labor (servants, in other words) was cheap and goods expensive, rather than the other way around as it is now. Suffice to say he was reallllly rich, though not the richest man in England, or even in Jane Austen's novels. Mr. Rushworth was worth twelve thousand a year, after all. And the Duke of Devonshire's income was in the six figures (which is why I roll my eyes at those who claim Chatsworth was the inspiration for Pemberley).
Zelda, anything else you want to know until you get the book?
