L&T Archive 1998-2003

family size

Does anyone know whether there was a reverse correlation between wealth and famiy size in JA's time? There's not much data there, but the Price family had what--9 kids or something--and a lot of the wealthiest families only had one or two -- like the Darcy's, Woodhouses, etc. The largest of the wealthy families would be four children--the John Knightley's, and the Bertrams, right?

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family size
Family size and wealth
There wasn't.