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. She had met Ets in the Chicago Commons. Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative by Fred L. Gardaphe calls her book "ne of the strongest Italian American immigrant narratives".