Historical fiction

This story begins in a future beyond the apocalypse, in the year 2082 AD/CE by our calendar, Mill 40 in what will be the Millennial calendar.

THE family lawyer had left her; she had listened with tightened lips, as through a labyrinth of legal phrases, he had informed her that she could only count upon five-and-twenty pounds per annum to feed, clothe, and provide for herself a roof to shelter her.