Timeline for What is the source of Mr. Norrell's wealth?

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Nov 27, 2018 at 16:05	comment	added	Peter Shor		@Joshua: some kinds of work are seen as degrading to gentlemen, and others are not. For instance, Norrell presumably worked very hard to acquire his magic books, to read them and sift out which parts were accurate, and to learn magic. So maybe Norrell found a way to acquire wealth through magic that he didn't feel was degrading. (Or maybe he only cares about his image as a gentleman, and magic he does without anybody knowing is okay.)
Nov 26, 2018 at 19:27	comment	added	Joshua Engel		It's a very good point that Drawlight is an extremely unreliable source. Though I'm not sure I'd attribute it to magic, either. Norrell is famously unwilling to actually perform magic; he thinks of himself as a gentleman (for whom actual work is degrading). He wants to be a theoretician, at most an adviser. That's a sharp contrast to Strange.
Nov 24, 2018 at 17:10	history	edited	Peter Shor	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 12 characters in body
Nov 24, 2018 at 17:05	history	edited	Peter Shor	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 12 characters in body
Nov 24, 2018 at 14:53	history	edited	Peter Shor	CC BY-SA 4.0	fixed typos and changed a few words
Nov 24, 2018 at 14:44	history	answered	Peter Shor	CC BY-SA 4.0