 While in London , Wollstonecraft pursued a relationship with the artist Henry Fuseli , even though he was already married . She was , she wrote , enraptured by his genius , " the grandeur of his soul , that quickness of comprehension , and lovely sympathy " . She proposed a platonic living arrangement with Fuseli and his wife , but Fuseli 's wife was appalled , and he broke off the relationship with Wollstonecraft . After Fuseli 's rejection , Wollstonecraft decided to travel to France to escape the humiliation of the incident , and to participate in the revolutionary events that she had just celebrated in her recent Vindication of the Rights of Men ( 1790 ) . She had written the Rights of Men in response to Edmund Burke 's conservative critique of the French Revolution in Reflections on the Revolution in France ( 1790 ) and it made her famous overnight . She was compared with such leading lights as the theologian and controversialist Joseph Priestley and Paine , whose Rights of Man ( 1791 ) would prove to be the most popular of the responses to Burke . She pursued the ideas she had outlined in Rights of Men in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ( 1792 ) , her most famous and influential work . 
