More or Less | How Rich was Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy?

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Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.

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Determined to secure her financial future, Austen dives back into her writing, embarking on her most ambitious work yet - Emma.

After the loss of her father throws the family into turmoil, Jane publishes two successful novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice.