Historical Currency Conversions is a useful little online tool that will translate historical amounts of money into modern equivalents in US dollars.
The very first thing that came to mind was Mr Darcy’s £10,000 a year, which turns out to be over £500,000 per annum. I knew he was incredibly wealthy of course, but I’d never really translated the figures in my head into the term ‘millionaire’.
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