housewife

perheenemäntä, kotirouva A woman, often unemployed, who spends most of her time maintaining the upkeep of her home and tending to household affairs.
The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.
A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work; – called also (m).
1852: Tom Taylor and Charles Reade, Masks and Faces Act II

Woffington's housewife, made by herself, homely to the eye, but holds everything in the world