“A single man of enormous fortune; 4 or 5 thousand a 12 months. What a wonderful factor for our ladies!” In “Satisfaction and Prejudice” Jane Austen didn’t have to clarify to the Nineteenth-century reader what Mr Bingley’s “4 or 5 thousand a 12 months” meant, or why it excited Mrs Bennet. It was apparent. Mr Bingley was an inheritor. And the surest strategy to get wealthy was not by working laborious however by marrying the best particular person.
 
			 
		    











