What Did Fanny Price Get for Refusing £4,000 a Year?

What did Fanny Price get for refusing £4,000 a year? Henry Crawford offered her a fortune in Mansfield Park; she married a younger son on about £700. We open both ledgers side by side, using Austen's own sums, her letters and MeasuringWorth. 00:00 What Fanny Price got for refusing £4,000 a year 01:00 Thornton Lacey, about £700 a year 04:13 Henry Crawford's £4,000 a year 07:31 Edmund and Mary's £1,700 10:39 What was guaranteed, and what wasn't 13:58 Jane Austen's own words on marrying for love Four thousand a year with Henry Crawford, or a parsonage eight miles from Mansfield with Edmund: which would you have signed? Tell us in the comments, and subscribe for the next ledger: what one servant really cost a Regency household. Educational content. Modern-money equivalents are estimates; measures and sources are listed above. Illustrations: public-domain archive images credited on screen and original stylised illustrations. SOURCES Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814), Project Gutenberg #141: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/141 W. & R. A. Austen-Leigh, Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters (1913), Project Gutenberg #22536: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22536 S. & S. Adams, The Complete Servant (1825), Internet Archive: https://archive.org/search?query=%22T... MeasuringWorth, UK purchasing power (real price): https://www.measuringworth.com/calcul... MeasuringWorth, exchange rates: https://www.measuringworth.com/calcul... Archive images: public-domain archive images credited on screen; other credits on screen. #FannyPrice #MansfieldPark #JaneAusten