Ten Thousand a Year, volume 1 (1841)

Popular novel, first published in 1841. According to Wikipedia: "Samuel Warren (23 May 1807 – 29 July 1877), was a British lawyer, novelist and MP. He was born near Wrexham, Denbighshire, the son of a Nonconformist minister. After studying at the Kingswood School, Bath he entered Edinburgh University to study medicine but then took up law, and became a barrister, wrote several legal text-books, and in 1852 was made Recorder of Hull. Warren sat in the House of Commons for Midhurst 1856-1859, and was a Master in Lunacy 1859-77. He was the author of Passages from the Diary of a late Physician, which appeared (1832–37) first in Blackwood's Magazine, as did also Ten Thousand a-Year (1839). Both attracted considerable attention, and were often reprinted and translated."