Stephanie is 33 years old. she has a full-time career and is not married. she does not have any children. stephanie's grandmother keeps asking her when she will get married and have children, insisting that stephanie should be married and a mother by now. she also insists that stephanie should not focus on her career because once she is married she should not be working. stephanie's grandmother is referring to the clock of her generation.

Early 18th century british industries were generally small scale and relatively unsophisticated. most textile production, for example, was centred on small workshops or in the homes of spinners, weavers and dyers: a literal ‘cottage industry’ that involved thousands of individual manufacturers. such small-scale production was also a feature of most other industries, with different regions specialising in different products: metal production in the midlands, for example, and coal mining in the north-east.two illustrations of 18t