A Study Guide for Laurie Halse Anderson's "Fever 1793"
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A Study Guide for Laurie Halse Anderson's "Fever 1793" - Gale
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Fever 1793
Laurie Halse Anderson
2000
Introduction
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson is a historical novel set during the yellow fever epidemic that decimated Philadelphia during the summer of 1793. The central character is Matilda Mattie
Cook, a fourteen-year-old girl who lives in the coffee house that her mother and grandfather run. When the epidemic hits, she is forced to grow up very quickly as she faces not only her own illness, but those of her mother and grandfather. Mattie must rely on untested inner resources as she watches her familiar city become a place of danger and mayhem.
Mattie teams up with her most trusted friend, a free black woman named Eliza, to nurse the children in their care through the disease. Once her loved ones are out of danger, Mattie and Eliza become business partners and rebuild the coffee house. Over the course of the book, Mattie grows from a typical teen, interested mostly in avoiding chores and chasing excitement, to a fully grown young woman with a thriving business and a young child in her care. The novel, published in 2000, contains numerous actual historical characters, from General George Washington to Dr. Benjamin Rush, and provides a lively portrait of Philadelphia when it was still the capital of the United States.
Author Biography
Anderson was born on October 23, 1961, in Potsdam, New York, to Reverend Frank and Joyce Halse. She grew up in Syracuse, New York, where her father served as chaplain for Syracuse University. After attending Onodaga Community College for two years, Anderson transferred to Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in languages and linguistics, and soon after married Greg Anderson, with whom she had two daughters, Stephanie and Meredith. The family moved back to Philadelphia and Anderson began writing as a freelancer while working on her own material.
Anderson's first publications were the picture books Ndito Runs and Turkey Pox. The idea for Fever 1793 came to Anderson in 1993. In an article she wrote for School Library Journal, she said that she found an article in the paper about the yellow fever epidemic that had devastated the city two hundred years earlier and thought it was the perfect subject for a novel. Anderson researched the novel for nearly two years, delving into primary source documentation at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, visiting historical re-enactors to find out how people of the period dressed, and reading up on the era's politics, architecture, religion, class structure, and the role of coffee houses and taverns.
In 1998, Anderson took a break from Fever 1793 to work on Speak. The story of a high school outcast who is hiding the dark secret that she was raped at a party, Speak was a surprise bestseller and won a number of awards. Anderson told School Library Journal:
I never thought anybody would publish Speak. I had published a couple of children's books before Speak came out, and I was still slaving away at Fever 1793…. I had given myself a deadline by which I needed to have some books published. If I didn't meet the deadline, I was going to go to nursing school, because I needed to make some money so