Levina Buoncuore Urbino

Levina Buoncuore Urbino or Lavinia Buoncuore Urbino (died 1888) was a writer and translator in the Boston, Massachusetts-area in the 19th-century.[1][2] Among her published works was An American Woman in Europe (1869), a frank account of her travels in Europe 1866-1869; she also wrote children's books and a guide to art technique. She sometimes wrote under a pseudonym: L. Boncoeur, L. B. Cuore, or L. Buoncuore.[3]

Her husband, S.R. Urbino, was a bookseller and publisher of foreign literature and language-instruction books.[3][4] She served as an officer of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals[5] and supported the New England Hospital for Women and Children.[6]

Works by L.B. Urbino

Translations by L.B. Urbino

References

  1. http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n82-275119
  2. Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's national library of American biography. American Publishers' Association, 1914
  3. 1 2 William Cushing. Initials and pseudonyms: a dictionary of literary disguises, Volume 1. NY: T. Y. Crowell & Co., 1885
  4. Oscar Fay Adams. A dictionary of American authors, 5th ed. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1904
  5. Our Dumb Animals, May 1877
  6. Annual report of the New England Hospital for Women and Children, 1904
  7. Copies of Sunshine in the Palace and Cottage were in the libraries of Boston's Mercantile Library Association and the Peabody Institute, South Danvers, Massachusetts. cf. Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Boston, 1854; Catalogue of the library of the Peabody Institute, South Danvers, Mass., 1855

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