Sentence:  The Irish maid Betty Flanagan's bonnets and ribbons, her sauciness, her idleness, her reckless prodigality of kitchen candles, her consumption of tea and sugar, and so forth occupied and amused the old lady almost as much as the doings of her former household ... about which the good lady talked a hundred times a day. And besides Betty Flanagan, Mrs. Sedley had all the <WSD>maids-of-all-work</WSD> in the street to superintend. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A female servant employed to do general housework.