Charlotte Stoker
Cholera is an infectious disease (like flu or Covid) that makes people very unhealthy and may make them die. In 1832 cholera spread through many countries in the world. After a while cholera reached Sligo Town where Stoker lived. Cholera was very bad in Sligo. No other town in Ireland or Great Britain had it worse. Many caring for those who lost their health from cholera were also to catch and die from cholera. People were very worried and behaved very bad. For example they put people in graves before they were dead. Stoker, who was a 14 year-old child, seen and remembered all their bad things. Her family were in fear and went to Ballyshannon (some  by road to the north) where they had other family.  But the people of Ballyshannon were in fear that the Stoker family might have caught cholera and told them to go away.