After the publication of Godwin's "Memoirs", which revealed and endorsed Wollstonecraft's love affairs and illegitimate child, her works were scorned by the majority of the public. Nevertheless, "the book was to arouse a passion for travel among cultivated people in Europe". Intrepid nineteenth-century British female travel writers such as Isabella Bird and Mary Kingsley still read it and were inspired by Wollstonecraft's pioneering efforts. "Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark" was republished at the end of the nineteenth century and Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of "Treasure Island", took a copy on his trip to Samoa in 1890.