Wiktionary
keep house
vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) To take care of domestic chores; work as a housekeeper. 2 To seclude oneself in one's house in order to evade the demands of creditors.
Usage examples of "keep house".
Then Mother died, and from teaching in Capitol City, where she was meeting new people and having new experiences, she had come back home to keep house for Father, and to teach in the same old dingy building where she herself had studied.