For five years she led this laborious and upon the whole not unhappy life, re-writing the English translation (from the Dutch) of _Young Grandison_; translating _Necker on Religious Opinions_ and _Lavater’s Physiognomy_ from the French; compiling the _French Reader_; producing _Elements of Morality from the German_; working at a novel, entitled _The Cave of Fancy_; throwing off countless articles and critical notices for _The Analytical Review_; putting into English numerous French political pamphlets, that, keeping her _au courant_ in the public affairs of France, quickened her sympathy with the revolutionary movement, and her admiration of the revolutionary leaders of that country; and together, with other original essays, sending through the press the _Answer to Burke_, and the _Vindication of the Rights of Woman_, written during the first outcry against the first part of _The Rights of Man_, by Thomas Paine, whose acquaintance she had made before she was so imprudent as to christen her comparatively inoffensive essay after his notorious book, and thereby to associate herself in the popular imagination with the man of evil fame, and with the work that only a few months later was declared by the King’s Bench jury ‘a false, scandalous, malicious, and seditious libel.’ In the five years, during which she was thus busily employed, Mary Wollstonecraft helped her brother and sisters largely with her earnings, whilst in order to do so she denied herself comforts to which she cannot have been wholly indifferent, and pleasures which so lively and emotional a woman must have desired. Mr. Johnson, in his later time, was of opinion that she could not have spent in this period less than 200_l._ on her needy relatives; and there is no reason to think the publisher’s rough estimate excessive. The woman, who, whilst subsisting chiefly on vegetables and exercising a severe economy in every department of her strictly personal expenditure, used in this manner so large a proportion of her slender and toilsome earnings was, at least, a woman to be honoured on certain grounds and from certain points of view.