Jane Austen’s England: everything you wanted to know
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What Kind of Annual Salary Would That Be in Today's Money?
In Pride and Prejudice, Mrs. Bennett claims that Mr. Darcy has 10,000 a year. But what sort of annual salary would that be in today's money? "If you literally look at kind of just inflation ... it isn't quite a million pounds a year"
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