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Position:Home>Books & Authors> He Earns ￡5000 A Year!!! is that good?Question: He Earns ￡5000 A Year!!! is that good!? THIS IS NOT A BOOK REPORT AND I AM NOT IN SCHOOL IM 32 AND WORK BUT I WANTED TO KNOW THE FOLLOWING
1!. In Jane Austen’s pride and prejudice Mr!. Bingley earns ￡5000 per year how much is that in today’s money!? 2!. The main girl says “If I could love a man who would take me for ￡50 a year” take her!?!?!? For ￡50 a year!?!?!? What does this mean!?!? He will have to pay this money out every year!?!? To who!?!?!?!?!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: 1!. That is a sizeable amount for that particular period of time!. Link that may help you understand this: http://janeaustensworld!.wordpress!.com/20!.!.!. 2!. That is a figure of speech!. It means she could love any man who would agree to marry her even if he only made 50 a year!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Bingley is wotrth about ￡130,000 these days - not bad for someone in his twenties!. He has to rent Netherfield, of course and staff it - but domestic s were cheap enough!. Darcy is more like a third of a million -and of course he owns Pemberley - and the farm land at that time would generate most of his income!. Probably an allowance of ￡50!.00 as a dowry (hypothetical as Mr Bennet has no money to speak of)Www@QuestionHome@Com According to this site http://www!.nationalarchives!.gov!.uk/curre!.!.!. Mr Bingley's ￡5,000 pa would be worth ￡169,800 today!. (I've used the year 1810!.) When a girl married in those days, her father would provide her with a dowry, a payment or land, etc, that would go to her husband!. A girl with a big dowry would be courted by a lot of men, while a poorer girl with little money would have a much lesser choice!. However, if you had a big dowry, you'd have to watch out for fortune hunters!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I found an inflation calculator but it only from 1900 onwards!. So, were it 100 years later it would be worth ￡442100 (times that by two for dollars)!. So bear in mind it would be worth even more in the early 1800s when the book was set!Www@QuestionHome@Com I've never read it but for the second part I think it is traditional that the daughter's parents pay her husband some money for looking after her!. Www@QuestionHome@Com i dunno!.!.!.!.!.!.!. probably like 50 thousand!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |