charwoman

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

Leah had been saying something I had not caught, and the charwoman remarked—

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.