Wife of radical author William Godwin and mother of novelist Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft was a versatile professional writer who attained fame for her radical ideas through her two political treatises, A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), which responded to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), her most famous publication and one of the greatest landmarks in the history of writing about women. Wollstonecraft's first publication was an educational treatise, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787), which was published by radical London bookseller Joseph Johnson, for whose publishing business Wollstonecraft worked as a writer, translator, and editor for a number of years. Wollstonecraft's fiction includes Mary, A Fiction (1788), Original Stories, from Real Life (1788), and the incomplete Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman (1798), published posthumously. Her conduct book, The Female Reader; Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and Verse; Selected from the Best Writers and Disposed under Proper Heads; For the Improvement of Young Women., appeared under the pseudonym Mr. Cresswick, teacher of Elocution (London, 1789) An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution (1794) was the fruit of Wollstonecraft's residence in France during the Revolution. Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) compiled her correspondence with her lover, the American Gilbert Imlay, for whom she traveled to Scandinavia as a business emissary. "On Artificial Taste," an essay that appeared in the Monthly Magazine (April 1797), was revised, probably by William Godwin, for republication as "On Poetry" in Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798). Wollstonecraft also produced at least one additional fictional sketch, translations of texts from French, Dutch, and German, a few adaptations, and a large body of reviews for Joseph Johnson's Analytical Review.