Rosa Format: Paperback

A vital record of another part of America's past -St. Paul Pioneer Press "A vivid, personalized account of the life of an ordinary woman born and raised in Italy who migrated to the U.S. in 1884. Rosa Cavalleri [is] a gifted storyteller" - Library Journal This is the life story of Rosa Cavalleri, as told to Marie Hall Ets, a social worker and noted author of children's books who was a friend of Rosa. Rosa's life in a village in Lombardy, her marriage at sixteen to an abusive older man, her unwilling migration to join him in a Missouri mining town, the unassisted birth of her first child, her escape from her husband who tried to force her into prostitution, and her life as an independent, resourceful, lively woman in Chicago, are chronicled in eloquent detail.