servant-galdom

Updated: May 19, 2025

A few months of this, the lowest stage of servant-galdom, and then they pass up into the maid-of-all-work class. Thus it is that many mothers prefer undertaking the duties of nurse themselves, and devote themselves to their children often at the expense of their husbands, and certainly of all social relations.

Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny - Town Life in Australia