Fever 1793

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Fever 1793

• By Laurie Halse Anderson

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CHARACTERS

• 1. Mattie Cook young teenage girl suffers
  during the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia
• 2. Lucille Cook Matties mother contracts
  yellow fever and is separated from Mattie
• 3. Captain William Farnsworth Cook Matties
  grandfather

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• 4. Eliza the coffeehouse cook takes care of
  Mattie
• 5. Polly the coffeehouse serving girl one of
  the first victims of yellow fever
• 6. Nathaniel Benson Matties friend and love
  interest apprentice to local artists
• 7. Pernilla Ogilvie wealthy socialite Mrs.
  Cook wants Matilda to marry her son Edward
• 8. Colette and Jeannine Ogilvie Pernillas
  snobbish daughters

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• 9. Andrew Brown local newspaper editor
• 10. Mrs. Epler Matties friend who sells eggs
  and chickens at the marketplace
• 11. Mrs. Flagg nurse at Bush Hill
• 12. Mrs. Bowles manages the orphanage where
  children are taken when their parents die of
  yellow fever
• 13. Nell orphan child Mattie adopts and
  cares for her

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• 14. Joseph Elizas brother wife dies of
  yellow fever
• 15. Robert and William Josephs sons

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SETTING

• Cook Coffeehouse
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 1793