Re: free online course on the literature of the English country house
Anyone doing this? I signed up as did another member from another board. Wondering if we can sorta work together in some way.
View ArticleRe: Looking for a Story # 2
One of Matril's "Hypotheticals" has Darcy breaking his collarbone after he and Lizzie are married. Is that what you're looking for?
View ArticleTwo hundred and fifty a year
In response to a conversation that was happening in reply to Loose Threads: Charlotte, Part I, in which Charlotte has received an annuity of 250 pounds per year.I see I'm a few days late on this. I...
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This article at Jane Austen's world mentions a couple of figures from Jane Austen's own budget. It says that she spent 40 pounds a year on clothes and personal items, and 10 pounds a year on gifts,...
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This paper analyzes the available data (often skimpy) on housing costs in England. (I just skimmed it.)It appears that during the Regency, it was possible to rent a house for roughly 80-100...
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I think you forgot to link the paper. Could you? I am actually also interested in this--I would like very much to know what middle class boarding houses cost during the regency.
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I didn't forget the link, the link failed somehow.But here it is. (I hope)http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/papers/housecost.pdf][/url]Table 5 seems to be the most useful. The author...
View ArticleDante's Inferno in Comfort and Consequence
I am reading C&C, now that it is completely posted, and I am a bit puzzled by the assumed immorality/impropriety of Dante's Inferno. Having studied it entirely and extensively in high school, I...
View ArticleRe: I'm doing it.
I don't know how to find each other in the system yet, but if you want to email me so we can set some sort of whatever up, it's mfpalmer0616@email.campbell.edu
View ArticleRe: Marry In Haste
Sorry to tell you this, but it won't happen any time soon. Between a full time teaching job and having gone back to university there's hardly any time left for writing. Maybe some time this summer,...
View ArticleRe: Dante's Inferno in Comfort and Consequence
I don't think anybody would argue for an immoral meaning to Dante's Inferno. It's merely a question of the propriety of the language. There's a difference, even now, between an allusion to a couple...
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Thank you both very much for the links! I will note that although the link in Margaret's second post doesn't work if you click on it, if you copy and paste all but the 'url' bit and brackets, it...
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I'm just now getting a chance to sit down and begin to work through their materials. I'll send you an email once I know a little more.
View ArticleRe: Two hundred and fifty a year
I have difficulty trying to access the paper.But is the estimate 300 per person per annum? I thought 300 per annum was the minimum for a lower genteel lifestyle for a couple with a small family, not...
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Lizzy C. Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------how much money it would take> people to live. Some of this, of course, is due to> class values, and there is some discussion...
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From what I've read, the cost of money was pretty steady at %5 during this time, so just saving 500 a year for 20 years in standard interest-bearing account would actually yield more like 17,200...
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