'conceptions of “women’s work” carried with them long-standing expectations around women’s inherent capacities as (unpaid) affective laborers. [note: 'On the emotional demands placed on women workers at this time, see Lucy Delap, Knowing Their Place: Domestic Service in Twentieth-Century Britain (Oxford, 2011); Christine Grandy, “Paying for Love: Women’s Work and Love in Popular Film in Interwar Britain,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 19, no. 3 (September 2010): 483–507; Selina Todd, “Domestic Service and Class Relations in Britain,1900–1950,” Past and Present 203, no. 1 (May 2009): 181–204; Judy Giles, The Parlour and the Suburb: Domestic Identities, Class, Femininity and Modernity (Oxford, 2004). On pet-keeping and sentimentality during the nineteenth century, see, for example, Kete, The Beast in the Boudoir, chap. 4, and Howell, At Home and Astray, chap. 5.']' (293)

'Kennelmaids embodied many of the contradictory forces experienced by young women entering domestic employment at this time. [note: 'Delap, Knowing Their Place, 11–22, 63–66; Todd, “Domestic Service and Class Relations.”']' (305)