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Teachers & SchoolsFourteen-year-old Matilda "Mattie" Cook is the teenage protagonist of a young adult novel. This...
Matilda's Grandfather is a solider, Captain William Farnsworth Cook of the Pennsylvania Fifth...
If there were antagonist in this novel, Lucille, Matilda's mother would be it. OK, not really....
Eliza is free a black woman who works at Matilda's family's coffeehouse. She's an excellent cook,...
Nathaniel Benson is Mattie's primary love interest in the novel. He's a painter and an apprentice...
Matilda's father died when she was young, having fallen off of a ladder two months after the...
Mrs. Bowles is a Quaker woman who rides in the cart back to Philadelphia with Matilda and her...
Mr. Brown runs The Federal Gazette. Matilda asks him to help her find her family, but he cannot...
Mr. Carris is one of Grandfather's opinionated friends. He's a lawyer who is part of the...
Dr. Deveze is the French doctor in charge of fever treatment at Bush Hill. His methods oppose...
Mrs. Bridget Flagg is one of the caretakers at Bush Hill, the mansion converted into a fever...
Joseph is Eliza's brother and a cooper. (That means he makes barrels.) He is stricken with the...
Dr. Kerr is the second doctor to treat Matilda's mother. He diagnoses her with yellow fever. He...
The Ludingtons are the family in the country that Matilda's mother threatens to send her to....
Nell is the orphan girl Matilda finds in the streets of Philadelphia and takes in as her own...
Pernilla, Jeannine, and Colette are the snobby women of the Ogilvie family. Pernilla is the...
The Peales are the family with whom Nathaniel is apprenticed. As the novel's Appendix tells us,...
Polly is a serving girl who worked at the Cook's coffeehouse. She is the first casualty of the...
The twins Robert and William are Eliza's nephews and Joseph's sons (Chapter 22). They lose their...
Mr. Rowley is the first medical professional (though he's not actually a doctor) that treats...
Mother Smith is an elderly black woman who cares for Joseph, Robert, and William, while Eliza...