Fortunately, her family did not burn all the poetry & letters they discovered in her room following her death in 1885, and instead, they selected poems published in posthumous editions. The first – edited by her brother’s mistress, Mabel Loomis Todd, and Dickinson’s mentor, Thomas Wentworth Higginson – was published in 1890 – after the publishers/editors “cleaned up” the poetry (i.e., they modified spellings and punctuation, substituted rhyming words, omitted lines and stanzas, etc.) to make the works “palatable” for public taste. They even gave titles to many of the poems.
One example: take a look below at the changes made to “Because I could not stop for Death” – which Todd and Higginson called “The Chariot.”
I found the 1890 edition online, and if you’re interested in looking through it, click HERE.