It has often been repeated that Wollstonecraft was not read for a century after her death in 1797 owing to the negative impact of her husband William Godwin’s Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798) on her posthumous reputation. Although the Memoirs and post-revolutionary politics everywhere dampened and even drove underground the reception of her persona and ideas in the first decades of the nineteenth century, Wollstonecraft’s reception in nineteenth-century continental Europe, as in the United States and Brazil, was more positive and sustained in comparison to the public backlash she faced as a “fallen woman” in her homeland of Britain through the bulk of the Victorian era.