Felicia Hemans invents herself as the poet of the domestic affections. After she stops writing long historical poems, she establishes herself as the limited poet of home. Critics have tried to argue that her more popular poems are revolutionary, which has troubled some readers who find that stance anomalous. But the stance of the domestic poetess is even more complex. Her interventions in the idea of home in her work published in Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine from 1827 on involve themselves with Blackwood’s constant concern with emigration, Malthusianism, and Ireland precisely because they concentrate on how and where a home can be made.