Jackie Dees Domingue

She was born into a white and wealthy English family. It had Quaker roots on both sides, but there are questions about whether or not she was brought up in the Society of Friends. The...

Well before the 1890s LSB was also a committed atheist. The reasons for and timing of her conversion away from Christianity are unknown, but her early poetry in the Quaker periodical Friends' Quarterly Examiner (1871)...

More is known about LSB 's relationship with her brother, Alex (who was born on 24 June 1854). She corresponded with him, and sent him poems she had written. Scholar Jackie Dees Domingue speculates that...

LSB 's marriage was short. Although the couple never formally divorced, they parted ways after a few years, and thereafter always lived separately. Jackie Dees Domingue argues that since LSB came from a wealthy family...

It is not clear how they met: Jackie Dees Domingue speculates that common ties to Quakerism might brought them into connected circles. In this year Spencer was responsible for the reprinting of some LSB poems...

This article inspired a review even before its publication, which criticized LSB 's argument as strangely silent as to the greater issues which flow from her doctrine, and constitute the real issues to be got...

Jackie Dees Domingue speculates that LSB 's dislike of government began in Germany , where she was subjected to an inordinate amount of regulations, penalties, and endless errands to the police station.

Her creed was unusual; she believed that no one ought to own anything beyond what was absolutely needed. Jackie Dees Domingue terms this view atypical and abstract, and argues that it caused friction with the...

Scholar Jackie Dees Domingue speculates, however, that even at this early date LSB 's poetic references to God may have been less than heartfelt. She argues: Bevington may have been influenced by her father's living...

Two other pieces, How to Eat Bread (first published in Nineteenth Century in September 1881) and Dogs in Germany (first under her married name of Guggenberger, also in Nineteenth Century, in August 1887) deal...

LSB privately printed Key Notes, her first, slim collection of verses, under the pseudonym Arbor Leigh, containing philosophical reflections on evolution.

Her work as an essayist, however, has only recently been discussed in detail. Eijun Senaha analysed both her poetry and her essays in his brief biography in 2000, while Jackie Dees Domingue 's dissertation...