# Nicola Briggs ## Posts - [Educating girls? Fancy that!](https://nicolabriggsauthor.com/educating-girls/): 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, without further expense to anybody. Jane did not have in mind the promotion of jobs for women, only that they would have a better choice of husband if they could engage in something more interesting than just pretty parlour talk. My school, Cheltenham Ladies’ College, opened its doors to the daughters and young children of noblemen and gentlemen from around 1856, after the founders of the college felt it […] - [Boarding School](https://nicolabriggsauthor.com/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 long way from the institutions I and my brother and sister knew in the 1970s. Times have changed. Would I want to relive that period of my life? Absolutely not. Have these schools learned from their past mistakes? More than likely. The photo accompanying this blog is the actual view from my bedroom ‘cubicle,’ although the curtain is an improvement on the flimsy rag from my day. We had identical cubicles, with some facing into the garden, and some, like mine, facing onto the […] - [Diaries](https://nicolabriggsauthor.com/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 up my life.  A diary is like a set of photographs – it presents a statement, an event; but to you, you become a time traveller, where the pleasures and pains behind the entries are still real, the circumstances leading to those words expanding at the speed of light within your present-day consciousness. This is an activity you might welcome when sitting comfortably in your easy recliner armchair with […] - [Are writers dodos in the making?](https://nicolabriggsauthor.com/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 it fails to understand why readers seek out human flaws in the protagonist, or why they want to identify with or dislike the villain or the victim. Humans are familiar with daily routines like getting up in the morning, opening the fridge door, and falling into their car when their watch tells them to, so they love it when reason is subverted, or logic is dysfunctional. My book is […] - [Selling the family silver](https://nicolabriggsauthor.com/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 we got our hands on it). Who has the time to polish a teapot destined for one outing a year? Writing road shows excite participants with the good news that everyone possesses an inner narrative, something a bit more interesting than I got born, went to school, got married, had kids, divorced, worked, went grey, died. Some let their time capsule escape dressed up as a work of fiction. […] - [How it all came about](https://nicolabriggsauthor.com/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 got their bin bags too. Although junior school was a charmed time, from age eleven I lived at a boarding school three hours away from home, visiting the house where my parents lived for just sixteen weeks of each year. Amongst the first needlework, the first painting, the first writing, are letters – the ones I wrote and the ones I received during my seven years at Cheltenham Ladies’ […] ## Pages - [Photo Album](https://nicolabriggsauthor.com/photo-album/) - [Privacy Policy](https://nicolabriggsauthor.com/privacy-policy/): www.nicolabriggsauthor.comType of website: AuthorEffective date: 1st day of September 2025 www.nicolabriggsauthor.com (the “Site”) is owned and operated by Nicola Briggs. 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You have successfully joined my subscriber list. - [Blog](https://nicolabriggsauthor.com/blog/) - [Excerpt](https://nicolabriggsauthor.com/excerpt/): In this chapter I am returning home after my first full term at boarding school The trouble with scattering your children across the country is that you have to go and fetch them, and what with there being so many exeats, holidays and half terms, socialising for adults can be severely limited unless you make a conscious effort to combine the two. From my classroom, the Christmas holidays of ’72 had seemed like they were never going to arrive, but they did. Father’s diary entry outlined the arrangements: ‘Celia collected Paul & Brian Elliott brought Nicola Home. We had champagne […] - [Peacock On The Moon](https://nicolabriggsauthor.com/peacock-on-the-moon/): Nicola Briggs You can unsubscribe anytime. For more details, review our Privacy Policy. SIGN UP Loading… Thank you! 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