It's the year 1793 and the only thing little fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook needs to worry about is how to avoid her mother's scoldings. Her mother was always the perfect girl. Always up stitching quilts, spinning wool, she constantly kept herself busy. There was never a moment to spare. Mattie lives with her mother and grandfather in Philadelphia in an apartment over their family business, a coffeehouse. .
Young adult readers will honestly enjoy this book because this is the story about a young girl who the readers can really relate to. While reading the book, you feel drawn towards and close to our heroine, Mattie. Historically accurate and excellent at describing vivid and bone chilling images, Laurie Halse Anderson puts the reader smack-dab into 1793 and onto the streets of Philadelphia. Mattie's father had dreams about owning their own coffeehouse. Bustling with people from all over the city, it seemed like a cheerful dream to look towards. Unfortunately, her father died when he fell off of a ladder and broke his neck while trying to fix up the place for the grand opening. As far back as Mattie can remember, her father had been the only person who could make her mother laugh and smile. Since his death, their happiness has to ceased and life is no longer all smiles but "a battle and Mother a tired and bitter captain." Her mother is too busy trying to run the business and barely has time to listen to Mattie ramble on about her great ideas for turning the Cook Coffeehouse into the finest business in Philadelphia. .
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Towards the end of the summer an outbreak of yellow fever spreads like wildfire." "Where's Polly?" I asked. "I spoke with her mother" Mother answered softly, "It happened quickly. Polly sewed by candlelight after dinner and then she collapsed. Matilda, Polly's dead."" The fever then spreads from the docks and creeps up the front steps of Mattie's home and threatens her family and friends she has known all her life.
Yellow fever is probably the most lethal of all the arboviruses. ... A remission period follows these symptoms, and mild cases of yellow fever end here. 15% of the victims will have a severe case of yellow fever. ... In 1793, 1 of every 10 Philadelphians died. ... Mosquito avoidance and control can also prevent yellow fever. Also, recovery from yellow fever gives a lifelong immunity. ...
The setting of this story is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the year of 1793. ... Polly had caught the fever and died overnight. Eventually the whole town of Philadelphia is getting yellow fever. ... The town was used as a hospital for many yellow fever victims. ... It is amazing how the yellow fever wiped out nearly half of Philadelphia. ...
Cornwallis was governor-general of India from 1786 to 1793. He led the campaigns that won British victory in the Third Mysore War and was named Marquess Cornwallis and then in 1793 he moved up to general. He returned to India at the age of 67 as governor-general, but was stricken by fever and died on October 5, 1805 in Ghazipore, India. ...
In 1793 France declared War on Britain. ... On August 29, 1793 Sonthonaz unilaterally freed all the slaves. ... On Sept 19, 1793 England invaded the island of San-Domingue and were welcomed by the white planters. ... The combination of yellow fever and guerilla war tactics used against them, the British had a difficult time protecting strongholds. ...
It is among these disheveled years that Maximillian Robespierre and his Committee of Public Safety took control of France, and in July of 1793, began "The Reign of Terror." ... It is September 6, 1793 and you are standing in the foyer of your estate watching the day slowly turn into night as the sun turns from a brilliant yellow to a bright orange to a dull red to a fading purple and blue and soon the sky is dark. ... So, it was in fear, which the nation of France lived from July of 1793 to August of 1794. ...
Benjamin Rush was an innovator in the field of medicine, making many advances in the treatment and diagnosis of many diseases. During the 1700s, the practice of medicine was very primitive, but Dr. Rush was able to improve and save the lives of many people. He also worked for the rights of the menta...
Politics have been the determining force in public health interventions every since the Jeffersonian-Democratic and Federalist parties split over whether yellow fever was contagious or not during the "Great Philadelphia Outbreak" of 1793 (Moss, 2000). ...
The year 1789 marked the beginning of tremendous creativity for Blake as he published his major works in the relatively short period to follow- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-93), The French Revolution (1791), America: A Prophecy (1793), Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793), The Book of Urizen (1794), the Songs of Experience (1793-4), Europe: A Prophecy (1794) The Book of Los (1795) and The Four Zoas (1795-1804). ...
By 1793, a new revolutionary ideology led to attacks on the principle pillars of the stability of the monarchy and, since the justification in the matter of things were no longer taken for granted v. ... Every country which Napoleon and his men conquered eventually caught the fever of nationalism, and learned from their French conquerors. ...
