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An A-Z of Women's Occupations in Victorian Britain 
>4s to 5s a day can be earned<
I wish I knew today's value of the money to better appreciate their situation.
Hi, thanks so much for reading and for your comments. I’m going to be writing some blog posts on working class family budgets when I move my site in the next week or so, but generally speaking in 1900 5s was worth around £25 today, maybe a bit less. At this time rent for a couple of rooms was 7-10s a week, and it was felt you really needed in excess of 35s a week to survive as food was so much more expensive than it is now. I’ll be writing a lot more on this soon!
Thank you for your answer and I’m looking forward to reading more about the matter.