She wears leggings underneath her gowns and she isn't about to play housemaid to any dwarves, either.

CNN: Review: Theron gives new 'Snow White' film some spine

There, Somjit, a tyrannical housemaid, grudgingly takes her in with a warning to stay far from the mistress of the house, Madame Ranjuan.

NEWYORKER: The Unseeable

Ana Sanchez Lobo and her sons live in Ramon's parent's home, about an hour north of Manila, along with one of her uncles and a housemaid.

NPR: A Family's Wait for U.S. Visas Spans Generations

Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- Sri Lanka's president on Tuesday appealed to Saudi Arabia's king to grant clemency to a housemaid convicted of killing her employer's baby.

CNN: Sri Lanka appeals to Saudi king to spare maid's life

Longbourn follows a romance between a newly arrived footman and a housemaid in the Bennet household that runs parallel to the love story between Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet.

BBC: Pride and Prejudice retold from servants' viewpoint

Sissy Spacek plays a proper Southern matron with an independent streak, and Whoopi Goldberg is the housemaid who inspires her to become a car-pool driver during the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-56.

NEWYORKER: The Long Walk Home

Rizana Nafeek arrived in Saudi Arabia in 2005 and spent her first few weeks in Saudi Arabia working as a housemaid to earn money to support her relatives back home who had been displaced by the massive tsunami in the Indian Ocean the year before.

CNN: Outrage over beheading of Sri Lankan woman by Saudi Arabia