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Bartoletti, Susan Campbell.
Terrible Typhoid Mary :
a true story of the deadliest cook in America /
Susan Campbell Bartoletti.
Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
[2015]
229 pages :
illustrations ;
22 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-216) and index.
In which Mrs. Warren has a servant problem -- In which the Warrens get more than their just dessert -- In which the usual suspects are questioned -- In which an epidemic fighter hunts for a clue -- In which the cook rules the kitchen -- In which Mary walks more like a man than a woman -- In which extraordinary and arbitrary powers are at work -- In which Mary fights like a caged lion -- In which Mary's bad behavior leads to her doom -- In which there's some name calling -- In which Mary is banished like a leper -- In which Mary has her day in court -- In which Mary learns to keep her germs to herself -- In which it takes a squad of sanitary police -- In which a weaker spirit might have been broken -- Afterword, in which we consider the research and writing of Mary's life.
Tells the story of "Typhoid" Mary Mallon, a cook in the early twentieth century who was a carrier for typhoid fever and sickening dozens.
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Typhoid Mary
1869-1938
Juvenile literature.
Typhoid Mary
1869-1938.
Typhoid fever
New York (State)
New York
History
Juvenile literature.
Typhoid fever.
Quarantine
New York (State)
New York
History
Juvenile literature.
Quarantine.
Cooks
New York (State)
New York
Biography
Juvenile literature.
Cooks.
Women
Biography.
Biographies.
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