These communities in turn would constitute the nation, not so much through laws, institutions, and external modes of power, but internalized within the individual subject by education in the broadest sense, including academic studies, professional training, and socialization or "manners." This vision of self and society, represented in fictions that develop individual psychology with new detail, set in domestic society described with new particularity, was rooted in Enlightenment epistemology and sociology and contributed largely to the emergence and popularization of modern ideas of civil society.
Maria Edgeworth was born at Black Bourton in Oxfordshire, on 1 January, probably in 1768 rather than 1767, the year often cited. She was the second surviving child and first daughter of Anna Maria Elers (1743-1773) and Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817). Her father was by far the most important figure in her life. He was an Anglo-Irish landed gentleman, but by family tradition he had been given a broad intellectual and professional education and trained in law in order to be an effective estate manager.
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