 Published in response to Edmund Burke 's Reflections on the Revolution in France ( 1790 ) , which was a defence of constitutional monarchy , aristocracy , and the Church of England , and an attack on Wollstonecraft 's friend , the Rev Richard Price at the Newington Green Unitarian Church , Wollstonecraft 's A Vindication of the Rights of Men ( 1790 ) attacks aristocracy and advocates republicanism . Hers was the first response in a pamphlet war that subsequently became known as the Revolution Controversy , in which Thomas Paine 's Rights of Man ( 1792 ) became the rallying cry for reformers and radicals . 
