Fever 1793 Review

a painter’s assistant who Matilda likes

• Nathaniel Benson

• Mr. Peale

• Polly

• Grandfather

The narrator. A 14-year old girl who helps her mother run the coffeehouse

• Lucille

• Eliza

• Polly

• Matilda

A nurse at Bush Hill who looks after Matilda when she gets Yellow Fever

• Mrs. Flagg

• Mrs. Cook

• Mrs. Bowles

• Mrs. Polly

A freed slave who cooks at the coffeehouse until the Yellow Fever Epidemic. During the Epidemic she nurses fever victims with the Free African Society

• Polly

• Lucille

• Eliza

• Matilda

An actual person from history. A famous doctor from Philadelphia who cared from Yellow Fever victims during 1793. He had also signed the Declaration of Independence.

• Benjamin Rush

• William Farnsworth Cook

• Nathaniel Benson

• Matilda Cook

Matilda’s grandfather. He fought during the Revolutionary War with General Washington.

• Nathaniel Benson

• Captain William Farnsworth Cook

• Mr. Peale

• Nell

A serving girl who worked at the coffeehouse until she dies of Yellow Fever

• Nell

• Polly

• Eliza

• Matilda

A woman who runs the orphanage. She offers Matilda a job at the orphanage.

• Mrs. Flagg

• Mrs. Bowles

• Mrs. Cook

• Eliza

A young orphan Matilda finds and takes care of.

• Eliza

• William

• Joseph

• Nell

An actual person from history. A famous painter who locked himself and his family into his house during the Epidemic of 1793.

• William Cook

• Matilda Cook

• Joseph

• Charles Peale