You're quite right, Vicky, that Austen's novels are particular about, and indeed fine-tuned, when it comes to questions of money. But I suppose I'd make a distinction between "money" (to hand, spendable, having some of it [barely enough to get by] or lots of it [like Darcy or Sir Thomas Bertram]) -- and wealth. On the latter matter Austen is silent, or at least assumes a kind of complicity in the reader: for where does all this money *come from*? How is it that Sir Thomas is so well off? Your point about Fanny being named Price is a good one, and the novel anticipates to some degree Wilde's quip about knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing. But the larger issue or frame of what money actually is --- where it comes from --- beyond what it can do (maintain a respectable upper-middle-class lifestyle) --- is, it seems to me, an absence.