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- Mrs. Lucille Cook (Mother) The mother of Matilda Cook and the daughter-in-law of Captain William Farnsworth Cook. Mother is a widow and owner of the Cook Coffeehouse in Philadelphia. She has been abandoned by her own family. She is protective of Matilda but after contracting yellow fever, can no longer watch over her.
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Mattie lives with her mother, Lucille Cook, who runs a Philadelphia coffeehouse. She also lives with her grandfather, Captain William Farnsworth Cook, a Revolutionary War veteran. Mattie feels trapped there and longs for freedom. At the beginning of the book, she enjoys sleeping in and tries to shirk strenuous chores.
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Matilda “Mattie” Cook. Mattie lives with her mother, Lucille...
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Matilda Cook is a fourteen-year-old girl living in Philadelphia in 1793. Matilda’s mother, Lucille, manages the coffeehouse, and they live above the shop with Grandfather, Matilda’s deceased father’s father, who fought in the war.
Analysis: Chapters 9–13. Matilda gets a taste of being an adult as roles are reversed and she must care for her mother and grandfather. The epidemic offers Matilda the freedom of adulthood, but it’s not what she imagined. In caring for her sick mother, she gains insight into Lucille’s thoughts.
The mother of Matilda Cook and the daughter-in-law of Captain William Farnsworth Cook. Mother is a widow and owner of the Cook Coffeehouse in Philadelphia. She has been abandoned by her own family. She is protective of Matilda but after contracting yellow fever, can no longer watch over her.
Stage 1: Matilda the (Slightly) Bratty Teenager. Before everyone around her starts dying, Matilda is pretty self-absorbed. (Give her a break. She's just a kid!) She's kind of mean to her mother, she sleeps in late, and while she has some responsibilities, she usually has to be badgered into performing them.
