Fever

Resource Information

The work Fever represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library, Britannia Branch (Open with Limited Services). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Fever

Statement of responsibility

Mary Beth Keane

Creator

• Keane, Mary Beth

Subject

• Historical fiction
• Historical fiction
• Immigrants -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Irish Americans -- Fiction
• New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction
• Quarantine -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- Fiction
• Typhoid Mary, 1869-1938 -- Fiction
• Typhoid fever -- Fiction
• Women cooks -- Fiction
• Biographical fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Biographical fiction

Language

eng

Summary

On the eve of the twentieth century, Mary Mallon emigrated from Ireland at age fifteen to make her way in New York City. Brave, headstrong, and dreaming of being a cook, she fought to climb up from the lowest rung of the domestic-service ladder. Canny and enterprising, she worked her way to the kitchen, and discovered in herself the true talent of a chef. Sought after by New York aristocracy, and with an independence rare for a woman of the time, she seemed to have achieved the life she'd aimed for when she arrived in Castle Garden. Then one determined 'medical engineer' noticed that she left a trail of disease wherever she cooked, and identified her as an 'asymptomatic carrier' of Typhoid Fever. With this seemingly preposterous theory, he made Mallon a hunted woman

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3611.E165

LC item number

F48 2013

Literary form

fiction