Many writers responded to defend the French Revolution, such as Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin.
[2] The themes articulated by those responding to Burke would become a central feature of the radical working-class movement in Britain in the 19th century and of Romanticism.
[3] Most Britons celebrated the storming of the Bastille in 1789 and believed that The Kingdom of France should be curtailed by a more democratic form of government.
[7] Most of those who came to be called radicals emphasized the same themes, namely, "a sense of personal liberty and autonomy"; "a belief in civic virtue"; "a hatred of corruption"; an opposition to war because it profited only the "landed interest"; and a critique of the monarchy and the aristocracy and its perceived desire to draw power away from the House of Commons.
Wollstonecraft's most famous work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was written in 1792 in the spirit of rationalism extending Price's arguments about equality to women.