1759      April 27, Wollstonecraft was born in London to John
Edward Wollstonecraft and Elizabeth Dickson.  She had an older
brother, Edward and four other children, James, Charles, Eliza
and Everina were born after her.

1759-1768  The Wollstonecraft family moves frequently during this
time. John Edward attempts farming in  Epping, Whalebone, and
Essex.

1768  The Wollstonecraft family moves to a farm in Yorkshire.
Mary's education followed the common course of day-school.  But,
she also becomes friends with a neighboring clergyman, Mr. Clare.
It is at Mr. Clare's home where she begins to develop
intellectually.

1775  Wollstonecraft meets Francis (Fanny) Blood, who became her
closest friend and companion until Blood's death.

1776  The Wollstonecraft family moves again to a farm in Wales.

1777  The Wollstonecraft family returns to London.  Mary, at
eighteen was able to exert some pressure upon her father to live
in the village of Walworth which was near London and her friend,
Fanny Blood.  She also insisted upon a room of her own for quiet
and study.

1778  Wollstonecraft leaves the family home to become a companion
to Widow Dawson of Bath.

1780  Wollstonecraft is called home to be with her failing
mother.

1782  Elizabeth Dickson Wollstonecraft dies.   Mary's sister,
Eliza marries Meredith Bishop.  Mary moves in with Fanny Blood.

1784  Wollstonecraft is called to nurse her sister Eliza who is
apparently deranged from the difficult birth of her daughter and
some sources say, the abuse of the husband.  Wollstonecraft,
Fanny Blood, and Eliza open a school in Islington where they are
joined by the other Wollstonecraft sister, Everina.
Wollstonecraft becomes acquainted with Dr. Richard Price and
other liberals.

1785  24 of February, Fanny Blood marries Hugh Skeys in Lisbon.
She becomes pregnant and sends for Wollstoncraft.
      29 of November, Fanny dies in Wollstonecraft's arms of
complications from premature birth.  Her child dies as well.

1786  Wollstonecraft returns to England to find the school had
suffered from her absence.  She closes the school and writes her
first work, a pamphlet entitled Thoughts on the Education of
Daughters.  She then accepts the position of governess to
the daughters of Lord Viscount Kingsborough and moves to Ireland
to fulfill her duties.

1788  Wollstonecraft spends the summer with the Kingsborough
family at Bristol Hot-Wells.  She writes her first book,
Mary, a Fiction, a children's book, Original Stories
from Real Life, and translates Jacques Necker's On The
Importance Of Religious Opinions. She also becomes involved
in her publisher, Joseph Johnson's monthly periodical The
Analytical Review as well as beginning translation of
Christian Gotthilf Salzmann's Elements Of Morality For The
Use Of Children. Her work with Salzman's book led to
correspondence and a later reciprocation when Salzmann translated
her A Vindication of The Rights of Women.

1789  Johnson publishes Wollstonecraft's The Female
Reader, no copies of which have apparently survived.

1790  Wollstonecraft completes and publishes her translation of
Salzmann's Elements..., writes A Vindication Of The Rights Of
Men in response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on The
Revolution In France.
 

1791  Wollstonecraft establishes a comfortable home on Store
Street and begins writing A Vindication of The Rights of
Women.  She meets William Godwin several times over the
course of the year, but neither party is impressed with the
other.

1792 A Vindication of The Rights of Women is published
by Johnson.  Leaves for France.

1793  Meets Gilbert Imlay, an American businessman.  Moves to the
suburbs of Paris for safety.  By the end of the year,
Wollstonecraft is attached to Imlay yet does not marry him,
preferring instead to simply register as his wife at the American
Embassy in Paris for protection purposes.  Wollstonecraft and
Imlay move back into Paris together.  Wollstonecraft becomes
pregnant.  Imlay leaves for LeHavre on a business trip.

1794  Wollstonecraft travels to LeHavre to join Imlay.  Daughter
Fanny is born May 14. Imlay returns to Paris and is followed by
Wollstonecraft and Fanny a short time later. Imlay leaves
Wollstonecraft and Fanny and travels to London. Johnson publishes
her Historical and Moral View Of The Origin and Progress of
The French Revolution.

1795  Wollstonecraft takes her daughter and follows Imlay to
London.  On discovering his infidelity, she begins to contemplate
suicide.  Imlay thwarts her first attempt.  Wollstonecraft leaves
on a business trip for Imlay with her child and a nurse to Sweden
Norway and Denmark.  She returns to find Imlay involved with an
actress and attempts suicide by jumping off Putney Bridge.

1796   Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden,
Norway, and Denmark, is published by Johnson.
Wollstonecraft meets William Godwin again and the two become
lovers.

1797  29 March, Wollstonecraft and Godwin marry in a private
ceremony due to Wollstonecraft's pregnancy.  They announce their
marriage in April.  The two maintained separate quarters to work
in during the day, but entertained guests in the evening at  No.
29 The Polygon.
          30 August Mary Wollstonecraft Goodwin is born.
          10 September, Wollstonecraft dies of "childbed fever".

1798  Goodwin's book  Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft is
published.