Educating girls? Fancy that!
It was Jane Austen who said if you gave a girl an education and introduced her properly into the world, ten to one she would have the means of settling well,…
Boarding School
To many, the opportunities offered by a boarding school education in Britain seem unfair – giving a child an advantage in life simply because their well-to-do parents have the meansto buy it for them. These schools appear to have come a…
Diaries
I started writing a diary at age eight and stopped ten years later. I wish I had persevered. Now I have little record of all the calamitous events that have made…
Are writers dodos in the making?
I doubt AI will replace writers who write solely to entertain. I’m not including those who write marketing and workshop material in this category. AI operates on reason and logic, but…
Selling the family silver
What would motivate someone to write a memoir? Isn’t that like selling the family silver—cashing in on cherished memories? I suppose it is, (and we kids sold ours as soon as…
How it all came about
When my mother moved to her bungalow, she off-loaded on me the black bin bag she had been sitting on, containing all my childhood sayings and doings. My brother and sister…
