charwoman

Watson, the woman in the image, was a so-called “charwoman” or janitor at the time.

I once, indeed, overheard part of a dialogue between Leah and one of the charwomen, of which Grace formed the subject.

She later got a job as a charwoman, but left her employers, stealing some clothes.

In fact, there doesn’t seem much to like about Bedford, who often treated her meekly devoted lovers like servants and charwomen.

His mother, Georgina, was a charwoman, but he recalled nothing of his father, Thomas, who worked in an iron foundry.