His father was fairly highly ranked army office - so not aristocratically rich - but then if they had been aristocrats, with a lot of money, they wouldn't have survived.
But then I would expect someone who wrote so much that was so popular to make quite a bit in those days - writers were the equivalent of big film producers in their day, I would guess, or even of the stars of the films - and Peter Jackson or Steven Spielberg aren't short of a penny or two...
I'm not sure about the tiled rooms - I think it would be like living in a Victorian public convenience!
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Date: 11/10/2013 03:51 pm (UTC)But then I would expect someone who wrote so much that was so popular to make quite a bit in those days - writers were the equivalent of big film producers in their day, I would guess, or even of the stars of the films - and Peter Jackson or Steven Spielberg aren't short of a penny or two...
I'm not sure about the tiled rooms - I think it would be like living in a Victorian public convenience!