evidence: Thomas Paine was not the only advocate of the rights of man or the only author of a work titled Rights of Man. The working-class radical, Thomas Spence, is among the first, in England, to use the phrase as a title. His 1775 lecture, usually titled The Rights of Man, and his later The Rights of Infants, offer a proto-geoist take on political philosophy mirroring Paine's work Agrarian Justice.[19] Paine's acquaintance Mary Wollstonecraft, whom he met via their common publisher, wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Men as one of the first responses to Burke's attack on Richard Price. Her work was in print in December 1790, and was well reviewed. She extended the arguments in the book for which she is best remembered, the 1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. [...] - ^ a b c d e f g Mark Philp, "Paine, Thomas (1737–1809)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 accessed 4 July 2012 - ^ George Rudé, Revolutionary Europe: 1783–1815 (1964) p. 183 - ^ Butler 1984, pp. 107–108; Marshall 2008, p. 195; Thomas 2019, p. 14–15. [...] - ^ T. Paine – introd. ed. anot. M. Philp, Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, Oxford – e.a., 1995, p. xviii.