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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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Matilda “Mattie” Cook Character Analysis. 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.
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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.
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.
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.
Fever 1793 begins in August 1793, with 14-year-old Matilda Cook awakening to a typical day: she helps her mother, grandfather, and the cook Eliza run the Cook family coffeehouse, a business Matilda’s mother manages alone since her husband’s death.
