Heron's Odes include poems about current affairs, especially the French Revolution.
She defends her interest in such matters in the preface, and admits to "feeling some anxiety" about how her work will be received.
She points out that her Ode to Reformation supports "moderation" even while implying that England is not free of injustice, and says that "the love of our country, and a knowledge of its constitution are virtues".
Julia Gasper, writing in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, considers that Heron "had thought carefully about gender politics and that her opinions were advanced for the time".
[2] As well as writing about nature and socio-political topics, Heron composed various poems commemorating a death or addressed to an individual.