FEVER 1793

Setting:

Cook Coffeehouse

COOK COFFEEHOUSE

• This setting is loud in the day when customers are there smoking pipes, drinking coffee, and talking to each other.
• It is also the household of the Cook family. The family lives in the upstairs portion of the coffeehouse.

Setting:
Bush Hill

BUSH HILL

• Bush Hill was a mansion turned into a hospital to house those who had the yellow fever.
• The sick slept in hospital beds lining the walls of rooms in the mansion.
• There were nurses who bathed, clothed, and fed the sick.
• There were rumors of the mansion housing dangerous criminals before the epidemic. Most people would avoid this place, but the sick had nowhere else to go.
• Stephan Gerard organized medical care and helped tend patients.

Setting:
Ogilvie Mansion

OGILVIE MANSION

• The Ogilvie mansion was a large estate owned by the Ogilvie family.
• The mansion was built by Robert Ogilvie.
• The Ogilvie family was very rich and high in their social status.
• Because the family has so much money, the house was huge drawing room.

CHARACTERS

Matilda Cook

MATILDA COOK

• Matilda,or Maddie, thinks of herself as a child even though she has reached the age where girls like her are finding suitors.
• She thinks she is weak and not strong enough to endure her family's struggle for survival.
• She wishes everything was back to normal, that the fever passed and everyone was well.

Lucille Cook

LUCILLE COOK

• Lucille is the mother of Matilda cook.
• She has grown to be a bitter woman since her husband died, leaving her to live her life as a widow.
• She runs the coffee house which is a proud reminder of her husband.
• She keeps a well trained eye on her daughter Matilda and doesn't let her do very much without her own consent.

Eliza

ELIZA

• Eliza is a cook and waitress at the coffee house.
• She is part of the Free African Society and helps with the fever victims.
• She is strong-willed and compassionate.
• She believes in the powers of God and thinks His virtues are what is best for everyone.

Polly

POLLY

• Polly was Matilda's friend.
• She had a job at the coffeehouse.
• She died of yellow fever.

Nathaniel Benson

NATHANIEL BENSON

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