Ines Cassettari [SEP] date of death
Ines Cassettari
Ines Cassettari (died 1943) was an Italian emigrant to America whose autobiography became famous. She was born in 1866 or 1867 in Lombardy, Italy, and abandoned at birth, and lived in an orphanage and then a foster home. She was forced to marry an abusive man. They immigrated to the United States, where she refused to run a brothel for him and eventually left him. She remarried and worked as a cleaning woman in the Chicago Commons until she died.
Her name was changed to
Marie Hall Ets
Marie Hall Ets (December 16, 1895 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin – January 17, 1984 in Inverness, Florida) was an American writer and illustrator who is best known for children's picture books. She attended Lawrence College, and in 1918, Ets journeyed to Chicago where she became a social worker at the Chicago Commons, a settlement house on the northwest side of the city. There she met Ines Cassettari, an immigrant from Italy who worked at the settlement. Ets transcribed Cassettari's autobiography, and