According to one calculator, £10 in 1802 prices would be about £1250 today, which would still be a fairish advance on a novel, and more than most self-published authors ever make from one book.
A small quibble, at one point you have 'Mr Knightley in Northanger Abbey has all the jargon at his fingertips.' Knightley is in Emma, not NA—I'm guessing you mean Henry Tinley.
“To walk three miles, or four miles, or five miles, or whatever it is, above her ancles in dirt, and alone, quite alone! what could she mean by it? It seems to me to shew an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum.” Caroline Bingley
Quite so. While Mr Darcy ignores the muddy hem and just notices Lizzie's sparkly eyes. But Emma criticises Mr Knightley along the same lines if more elegantly expressed.
‘I shall like it,’ she cried, ‘beyond anything in the world.’ ". That's very good advice for all of us.. we all should like those walks more than anything in the world, at least while we're about them. And no country in the world outside England is more experienced, has a longer tradition or more support for hill walking.
Great stuff—of course.
According to one calculator, £10 in 1802 prices would be about £1250 today, which would still be a fairish advance on a novel, and more than most self-published authors ever make from one book.
A small quibble, at one point you have 'Mr Knightley in Northanger Abbey has all the jargon at his fingertips.' Knightley is in Emma, not NA—I'm guessing you mean Henry Tinley.
Thanks, Tilney of course. According to Jane herself, £500 a year would be a bare bones existence for a gentleman with family. So £10 wouldn't go far.
“To walk three miles, or four miles, or five miles, or whatever it is, above her ancles in dirt, and alone, quite alone! what could she mean by it? It seems to me to shew an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum.” Caroline Bingley
Quite so. While Mr Darcy ignores the muddy hem and just notices Lizzie's sparkly eyes. But Emma criticises Mr Knightley along the same lines if more elegantly expressed.
‘I shall like it,’ she cried, ‘beyond anything in the world.’ ". That's very good advice for all of us.. we all should like those walks more than anything in the world, at least while we're about them. And no country in the world outside England is more experienced, has a longer tradition or more support for hill walking.