When reading a book like the Count of Monte Chriato or Scherlock Holmes, they mention that this and this person has an income of 4000 pounds and that person will have this and this income when she marries.
How does that work? Most of these people do not do any actual job.
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Some interesting analysis here to put that figure into modern numbers. (TLDR – he was in the top 5% of wealthy people of the time, and his income alone was somewhere between £1m and £16m per year, depending on how you calculate it).
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