Wages & the 18th century novel.

[Thomas_More]

I love reading 18th century primary source adventure novels. The heroes and heroines frequently complain of poverty, but never consider wage-slavery but as an option worse than death. They will bewail along the lines of: “Were I not saved soon, I would have had no choice but to seek a position.”
Fortunately, something intervenes at the last moment to rescue them from such a fate.

[Thomas_More]

Penniless aristocrats and over-rich bourgeois are a common theme in these novels. So are “yobs” and muggers who are aristocrats, picking on members of the bourgeoisie.😀

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