A Vindication of the Rights of Men by Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Men is her response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, which was published in 1791. She doesn't hold back. Her letter is a candid broadside against Burke and his opinions. She accuses him of hypocrisy, dishonesty and grandstanding in order to boost a flagging reputation. She points out what she sees as a mass of contradictions in Burke's text and his lack of intellectual rigour. Her support for the efforts of the French National Assembly in furthering the objectives of the Revolution is largely in accord with Thomas Paine's.