 Her father was ennobled as Nordenflycht in 1727.After the retirement of her father in 1730, the family settled on the estate Viby.She was sporadically tutored by Henning Tideman, the teacher of her brother Anders Nordenflycht (1710–1740), in Latin and German, and studied philosophy and theology as an autodidact, being otherwise only educated in domestics and accomplishments.