Collection: Lillian Cicio autobiography | University of Minnesota Archival Collections Guides

Abstract

Fictionalized autobiography in English, 437 pages.

Dates

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Open for use in the Elmer L. Andersen Library reading room.

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Biographical / Historical

Lilian Cicio's family immigrated from Sicily and later lived in Williamsburg, New York, where she worked as a sales clerk in a department store, then left school to become a secretary. Her grandmother was a midwife. The neighborhood comprised various nationalities and ethnic groups - Sicilians, Neapolitans, Italians and the French.