... equality. In "Vesuvius At Home," another of Rich's essays, these borders are even more evident. This essay was written completely on the life and works of Emily Dickinson, anachronistically free in her own writings. But Dickinson's works were "edited" by her family after her death; the freedom in her work would not be evident for nearly 100 years. The work that did make ... occasion when a woman did write freely, ignoring the constraints of society, the ideology controls the work. I can only assume the male-dominated literary world of the day was threatened by Dickinson's work (which in...

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