His wife and daughter were in tastes and acquirements below a housekeeper or a stillroom maid of the present day.
"The History of England from the Accession of James II. Volume 1 (of 5)"
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Valentine soon tired of so much pastoral exercise and departed to St. Germain's, leaving young Charles in the care of an old stillroom maid, now a prosperous farmer's wife.
"The Passionate Elopement"
Compton Mackenzie
Rose-water, elder-flower water, and all stillroom mysteries found an expert in her, and she even concocted mead from an old recipe.
"Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life"
Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey