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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Mr Darcy was worth fifty thousand pounds a year. I think his family was richer than the royal family. Would have to have been a huge landholder with many tenant farmers paying their dues.
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