She worked as a domestic housekeeper and laundress. She may have worked as a laundress, seamstress or actress. His parents were William Thomas Wells, a musician, and Emily Rhoda Farrier, a laundress. Her mother, Ada Vaughan, was a laundress who sang in the church choir. The occupations often given for women were cook and laundress. His charwoman, laundress and the local undertaker steal his possessions to sell to a fence. She is Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, the animals' laundress and "an excellent clear-starcher". Morton played Hattie, a mute laundress and the love interest of Penn's character. In contrast, Carl's mother worked long hours as a laundress to provide for her family. In 1896, Barnacle completed her schooling and began to work as a porteress and laundress. One theory is she was a laundress. Jose makes enough stipend to relieve Ma'Tine from her laundress job. La Blanchisseuse (, "The Laundress") is an 1886 painting by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Sarah found work as a laundress, earning barely more than a dollar a day.