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Sep 1, 2000 · February 7, 2023. Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson is a short novel about the Yellow Fever is Philadelphia in 1793. It took Matilda’s grAndfather, many friends and 5 thousand plus individuals from that area in 3 months. This is a story about survival and over coming all odds.
As Matilda serves the customers in the coffeehouse, she hears them talking about a new disease spreading around the city, and some believe it is yellow fever. More and more people continue to catch the disease and die.
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Published in 2000, Laurie Halse Anderson’s Fever 1793 is a historical young adult novel set in 18th-century Philadelphia. Despite horrific conditions and tragic losses, fourteen-year-old Matilda Cook finds the strength to navigate the devastating yellow fever epidemic that overtakes Philadelphia.
The first major American yellow fever epidemic hit Philadelphia in July 1793 and peaked during the first weeks of October. Philadelphia, then the nation’s capital, was the most cosmopolitan city in the United States.
May 28, 2020 · Theodor Horydczak Collection. Prints and Photographs Division. In December 1793, Martha Washington bought a new book by Mathew Carey called A Short Account of the Malignant Fever Lately Prevalent in Philadelphia.
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793. Finalist, National Book Awards 2003 for Young People's Literature. ISBN 9780395776087. Clarion Books / Houghton Mifflin Company. Jim Murphy.
