THE love interest in Spike Jonze's new science fiction-tinged comedy drama, "Her", is typical Hollywood: a perky hybrid of nursemaid, personal assistant and sex worker, someone who exists solely to motivate her socially maladjusted boyfriend.
Her mother, Julia, had married in 1867 and set up home with cook, kitchenmaids, housemaid, parlourmaid, lady's maid, nurse, nursemaid and gardener.
A manservant, maid and nursemaid wander around the house and the 18th-century kitchen provides food.
After escaping to the North in 1842, Jacobs worked as a nursemaid in New York City and eventually moved to Rochester, New York, to work in the antislavery reading room above abolitionist Frederick Douglass's newspaper, the North Star.
With the aim of gathering material for her writing, she worked at various times as a waitress, as a nursemaid, and in a sweatshop, and she made a sea voyage to Europe in steerage.
The daughter of Thomas Jefferson Taylor, a prosperous businessman, and Minnie Patillo Taylor, Claudia Alta Taylor was nicknamed "Lady Bird" on the suggestion of a family nursemaid.
Emma Thompson's magical, hairy-warted nursemaid is back, this time visiting a farm in the 1940s, where Maggie Gyllenhaal is struggling while her husband's at war.
There's a touch of Ali G to his clueless RnB wannabe while the aforementioned sadistic nursemaid would fit right in alongside the League of Gentlemen in Royston Vasey.
Both the nursemaid and the child had a deep tan and had just returned, he knew, from Bermuda.
When he says, "I gotta' play nursemaid to a bunch a' feebleminded women down here in civilization who can't take care a' themselves," Meg replies, "Why don't you just go off and live the way you want to live.
She transformed herself, without complaint, from my father's lover, friend, muse, and combatant to his nursemaid, cheerleader, chauffeur, and medical advocate.
