The only money which Dare received to carry on with, on his accession to the great honor and dignity of proprietor of Vandon, was brought to him by the old Dairywoman of the house, a faithful creature, who produced out of an old stocking the actual coins which she had received for the butter and cheese she had sold, of which she showed Dare an account, chalked up in some dead language on the dairy door.
"The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers"
Mary Cholmondeley
Mrs. Grose, since then, in the way of manners and things, had done as she could for Flora; and there were, further, a cook, a housemaid, a Dairywoman, an old pony, an old groom, and an old gardener, all likewise thoroughly respectable.
"The Turn of the Screw"
Henry James
Self-sacrificing as her mood might be, Tess could not well go further and cry, "Marry one of them, if you really do want a Dairywoman and not a lady; and don't think of marrying me!"
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman"
Thomas Hardy