The Handmaid's Tale, а dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood warning against about a potential religious dictatorship in a fictional Republic of Gilead where women are assigned only reproduction-related roles in society of the future.
Jacob had twelve sons and at least one daughter, by his two wives, Leah and Rachel, and by their handmaidens Bilhah and Zilpah.
In Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, Jenny Greenteeth appears in the form of a beautiful young woman, the handmaiden of Maeve, Winter Lady and youngest of the Unseelie Queens of Faerie.
Vierna summons a Yochlol, a demonic handmaiden of Lolth, which attacks Wulfgar.
In T-Bag and the Rings of Olympus, the heroine is the Goddess Athena's handmaiden, Polyzena, or Polly, played by Natalie Wood.