Ellen, the fourteen-year-old nursery maid, behaved towards her as though she were the Queen.

It's midmorning, the time when nursery maids and governesses escort children here to play.

She left the child with the nursery maid and stolen out to meet friend of hers - a man!

She became a nursery maid of Mulan's child some years later.

He'd never heard of anything like that, not even in the bedtime stories his nursery maid had told him of gryphons and magic!

"I would rather wash dishes than be a nursery maid," she insisted.

And why would Anne send all the way to Hever for a nursery maid?

Eventually Rosie, the youngest of the nursery maids, pushed the door open a fraction, a handkerchief to her face.

Domestic service agencies supplied nursery maids and sometimes gave basic training, for which popular manuals were also published.

Catullus was right-tell them a story and they'd all stay awake to listen like children to a nursery maid.