[Subtitulada en español] Mr Darcy from Pride and Prejudice is famous for being rich. But just how rich is he? Is he actually that impressive or is he just sort of middle class fancy? In this video, I put Mr. Darcy into the financial context of the Regency era and show exactly what sort of financial position Jane Austen painted him in.

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🕰 Watching Guide
00:00 Is Darcy Actually Rich? [Intro]
01:11 Regency Economics vs Today
01:57 Examine Pride and Prejudice Quotes
02:45 Mrs Bennet Insight
03:54 Tis as Good as a Lord
05:53 Special Marriage License
08:11 Social Hierarchy of Georgian England
13:40 Darcy vs the Duke of Devonshire
16:51 Darcy as a Landowner
18:03 Pride and Prejudice Said So

🧐Learn More

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Review 25.2 (1977): 77-97.

Clark, G. “Land Rental Values and the Agrarian Economy: England and Wales, 1500-1914.” European Review of Economic History, vol. 6, no. 3, 2002, pp. 281–308., doi:10.1017/s136149160200014x.

Dickson, P. G. M., and J. V. Beckett. “The Finances of the Dukes of Chandos: Aristocratic Inheritance, Marriage, and Debt in Eighteenth-Century England.” Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 64, no. 3/4, 2001, pp. 309–355. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3817916.

The Etiquette of Courtship and Matrimony: with a Complete Guide to the Forms of a Wedding. United Kingdom, George Routledge and Son, 1852.

“Forbes Billionaires 2021: The Richest People in the World.”
Forbes, Forbes Magazine, www.forbes.com/billionaires/.

Hilton, Boyd. A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People?: England, 1783-1846. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Le, Faye D. Jane Austen's "outlandish Cousin": The Life and Letters of Eliza De Feuillide. London: The British Library, 2002. Print.

Lindert, Peter H., and Jeffrey G. Williamson. "Reinterpreting Britain's social tables, 1688–1913." Explorations in Economic History 20.1 (1983): 94-109.

Thompson, F M. L. English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis, 2013.

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