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Hi malone
Could I encourage you to try Jane Austen? She wrote English as it should be wrote!

ChrisE, in a word - no! The excerpts, quotes, scenes from tv or film adaptations that I have read or seen have always confirmed my decision to avoid all of JA's works. My view is that there are plenty of books in the world, I'll never be stuck for choice!

malone chrise

I have never read any books by those authors either but I went to an outdoor performance of Pride and Prejudice. It was at a country house and 5 actors played all the parts. It was brilliant but it did not persuade me to try JA's books.

jigjag

Were there any actresses?

or actorettes ...

... or actrixes! ...

... you could be a spinnatrix Grunger!

Grunger

There were 3 actresses and 2 actors, but unfortunately no actorettes or actrices. I was using actor in the generic sense. I like tyke's suggestion that you could be a ----natrix.

Tyke, if we follow conventional Latin structure, than singular would be actrix, but plural would be actrices. : )

I stand corrected Profrock - I was thinking about words like Dominatrix ... I suppose the plural is Dominatrices, but then perhaps one Dominatrix is enough! Like a lot of things my Latin is more than a little rusty - it never was great to be honest!

tyke

Thanks for your suggestion that I could be some sort of -atrix. I am currently an executrix and soon to become a testatrix. But I would really like to be a proprietrix, preferably of a pub.