'like domestic maids, kennelmaids often developed highly personal relationships with their employers. Indeed, the first significant portrayal of them inthe British press - the so-called “Kennelmaid Case” of 1907 in which the defendant Miss Josephine Leslie was accused of defrauding her mistress - exemplified many ofthe established tropes of disloyal and manipulative servitude. [note: 'On the portrayal of servants as criminals see Anthea Trodd, Domestic Crime in the Victorian Novel (Basingstoke 1989), 45–68.']' (306)