Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Who wrote 'the Rights of Man'?
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Correct answer: B. Thomas Paine
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Thomas Paine's Rights of Man (1791) answered Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. Wollstonecraft had replied first, with A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790).
Note: The source question is loosely worded: Paine's title is Rights of Man, and 'A Vindication of the Rights of Men' is Wollstonecraft's own earlier work. Paine is the intended answer.
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