玛丽斯通克拉夫特出生于4月，1759年第27位。她的父亲 - 一个快速锻炼和不稳定的人，殴打妻子，孩子，或狗能 - 是谁在制造商的Spitalfields金钱时的Spitalfields蓬勃的儿子。她的母亲是一个严格的Irishwoman，对巴利善农迪克森。爱德华约翰斯通克拉夫特 - 因子女，除了玛丽，第二个孩子，三个儿子和两个女儿活到男人和女人 - 在过程中得到了大约10万磅，而离开，他父亲把他打发走。他开始摆脱它的农业。玛丽斯通克拉夫特的第一家是在怀念在埃平农场。当她5岁那年全家搬到另一个农场，由切姆斯福德路。当她6至7岁是他们再次提出，到门口附近。在那里，他们仍然是前三年的下一步行动，这是附近的一个农场贝弗利在约克郡。他们在约克郡仍然6年，玛丽斯通克拉夫特当时有什么样的教育落到她之间的10和16岁的地段。爱德华约翰斯通克拉夫特后来又放弃了耕作，不敢从事商业投机。这使他住了一年皇后的行，霍克斯顿一半。他的女儿玛丽当时16岁，虽然她有她在霍克斯顿教育先进由一个变形牧师友好护理 - 1克莱尔先生 - 谁住在隔壁，和呆在家里这么多，他的一双鞋了他历时14年。
    但玛丽斯通克拉夫特的首席此时朋友是一个成功的女孩只比自己大两岁，谁在绘画技巧维持她的父亲，母亲和家人。她的名字叫弗朗西斯血，尤其是她，在她的榜样，直接的指导，掏出她的年轻朋友的权力。 1776年，玛丽斯通克拉夫特的爸爸，一个滚动的石头，轧成威尔士。他又是一个农民。明年他又是一个伦敦人，和玛丽有足够的影响力来说服他选择在沃尔沃思，房子在那里她将接近她的朋友范妮。然后，然而，她家的生活条件使她成为对要出去为自己赚取生活点频繁。 1778年，当她19岁，玛丽斯通克拉夫特的确离开了家，以作为一个富有商人的遗孀巴斯人，其中有人说，她的同伴都可以留在她的同伴的情况。玛丽斯通克拉夫特，然而，与困难寡妇住两年，并作出自己的尊重。她的母亲当时没有健康造成玛丽回到她。父亲当时在恩菲尔德的生活，并试图挽救，没有任何商业活动后，在他所有的手段小的其余部分。母亲去世后的长期痛苦，完全依赖于她的女儿玛丽的照顾的。母亲的最后一句话是经常引用玛丽斯通克拉夫特在她自己的痛苦过去几年 - “有一点耐心，一切也就结束了。”
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    Mary Wollstonecraft was born on the 27th of April, 1759. Her father--a quick-tempered and unsettled man, capable of beating wife, or child, or dog--was the son of a manufacturer who made money in Spitalfields, when Spitalfields was prosperous. Her mother was a rigorous Irishwoman, of the Dixons of Ballyshannon. Edward John Wollstonecraft--of whose children, besides Mary, the second child, three sons and two daughters lived to be men and women--in course of the got rid of about ten thousand pounds, which had been left him by his father. He began to get rid of it by farming. Mary Wollstonecraft's first-remembered home was in a farm at Epping. When she was five years old the family moved to another farm, by the Chelmsford Road. When she was between six and seven years old they moved again, to the neighbourhood of Barking. There they remained three years before the next move, which was to a farm near Beverley, in Yorkshire. In Yorkshire they remained six years, and Mary Wollstonecraft had there what education fell to her lot between the ages of ten and sixteen. Edward John Wollstonecraft then gave up farming to venture upon a commercial speculation. This caused him to live for a year and a half at Queen's Row, Hoxton. His daughter Mary was then sixteen; and while at Hoxton she had her education advanced by the friendly care of a deformed clergyman--a Mr. Clare-- who lived next door, and stayed so much at home that his one pair of shoes had lasted him for fourteen years.
    But Mary Wollstonecraft's chief friend at this time was an accomplished girl only two years older than herself, who maintained her father, mother, and family by skill in drawing. Her name was Frances Blood, and she especially, by her example and direct instruction, drew out her young friend's powers. In 1776, Mary Wollstonecraft's father, a rolling stone, rolled into Wales. Again he was a farmer. Next year again he was a Londoner; and Mary had influence enough to persuade him to choose a house at Walworth, where she would be near to her friend Fanny. Then, however, the conditions of her home life caused her to be often on the point of going away to earn a living for herself. In 1778, when she was nineteen, Mary Wollstonecraft did leave home, to take a situation as companion with a rich tradesman's widow at Bath, of whom it was said that none of her companions could stay with her. Mary Wollstonecraft, nevertheless, stayed two years with the difficult widow, and made herself respected. Her mother's failing health then caused Mary to return to her. The father was then living at Enfield, and trying to save the small remainder of his means by not venturing upon any business at all. The mother died after long suffering, wholly dependent on her daughter Mary's constant care. The mother's last words were often "ed by Mary Wollstonecraft in her own last years of distress--"A little patience, and all will be over."