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An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793. New York: Clarion Books. ISBN 978-0-395-77608-7. Powell, John Harvey (1993) [1949]. Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793. Reprint. (Introduction by Foster, Jenkins & Toogood). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania ...
A Short Account of the Malignant Fever (1793) was a pamphlet published by Mathew Carey (January 28, 1760 – September 16, 1839) about the outbreak of the Yellow Fever epidemic Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 in Philadelphia in the United States. The first pamphlet of 12 pages was later expanded in three subsequent versions.
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 is a 2003 nonfiction adolescent history by author Jim Murphy published by Clarion Books. An American Plague was one of the finalists in the 2003 National Book Award and was a 2004 Newbery Honor Book. It portrays the agony and pain this disease brought upon ...
The sequel, Arthur Mervyn; or; Memoirs of the Year 1793. Second Part , was released in 1800 and is now very rare, with only a few collectors succeeding in obtaining both volumes. [ 2 ] The novel has also influenced other American Gothic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe , in writing The Masque of the Red Death , published in 1842.
In 1793, there was an outbreak of yellow fever in Philadelphia. Although many other well-to-do citizens chose to leave the city, Girard stayed to care for the sick and dying. He supervised the conversion of a mansion outside the city limits into a hospital and recruited volunteers to nurse victims, and personally cared for patients.
Mathew Carey (January 28, 1760 – September 16, 1839) was an Irish-born American publisher and economist who lived and worked in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.In Dublin, he had engaged in the cause of parliamentary reform, and in America, attracting the wrath of Federalists, retained his democratic sympathies.