‘When tried by the hoary and long-established laws of literary composition, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman can scarcely maintain its claim to be placed in the first class of human productions,’ he wrote after her death. ‘But when we consider the importance of the doctrines, and the eminence of genius it displays, it seems not very improbable that it will be read as long as the English language endures.’(Godwin)