Maid

Maid

A maid, or housemaid or maidservant, is a female person employed in domestic service. Although now usually found only in the most wealthy of households, in the Victorian era domestic service was the second largest category of employment in England and Wales, after agricultural work.

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    “Where has Maid Quiet gone to,
    Nodding her russet hood?
    The winds that awakened the stars
    Are blowing through my blood.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)