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Under house parlour maid: the general deputy to the house parlour maid in a small establishment that had only two upstairs maids. Nursery maid: also an "upstairs maid", but one who worked in the children's nursery, maintaining fires, cleanliness, and good order. Reported to the nanny rather than the housekeeper.
Nursemaid (Nursery maid) – A maid who oversees the nursery. Page or Tea boy - An Apprentice footman, 10 to 16 years old. Parlour maid - Cleaning the sitting rooms, drawing rooms, library and alike. Personal shopper – A person who does the shopping. Personal trainer – A worker who trains their employer in fitness, swimming, and sports.
A Greek Revival parlour in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A parlour (or parlor) is a reception room or public space. In medieval Christian Europe, the "outer parlour" was the room where the monks or nuns conducted business with those outside the monastery and the "inner parlour" was used for necessary conversation between resident members.
Articles about women who worked as maids, female domestic workers.In the Victorian era domestic service was the second largest category of employment in England and Wales, after agricultural work. [1]
Elizabeth insisted on taking Sarah back to Eaton Place, and installed her as scullery maid, the only vacant position. Sarah was not happy with this, and determined to become under house parlour maid again. She managed to upset Alice (the under house parlourmaid) so Alice left, and Sarah then became under house parlourmaid.
As parlour maid, Emma sees a lot of the Fairley family and becomes friends with the younger son, Edwin. They bond over the deaths of their mothers. Emma also meets Blackie O'Neill, a wandering Irish navvy who has been hired to do some work at Fairley Hall, and they become fast friends. One day, Emma and Edwin realise they feel more for each ...
Tom Freeman (Mr. Robert Loraine), the Colonist farmer, in search of a wife, tells his much-shocked sister Rose that he has asked Smith, the parlour-maid, to marry him. Emily Chapman, who lives by bridge-playing, now artfully succeeds in getting an offer of marriage from Tom. Smith (Miss Marie Lohr) confesses her love for Tom.
Sarah had problems fitting into service as an under-house parlour maid, and within her first week stole, from the kitchen. When Hudson and Mrs. Bridges made her write out a passage from the Bible, she was forced to reveal she was illiterate. She quickly struck up a friendship with the head house parlour maid, Rose.