Lucretia Xavier Floyd

Lucretia Marie Frances Xavier Floyd (1860s – August 20, 1922) was a Spanish-born American writer, translator and educator based in Boston. Her English translation of the Quintero brothers' one-act comedy A Sunny Morning was widely anthologized.

Early life and education Xavier was born in Spain and raised in the United States, the daughter of Antonio Xavier and Mary R. Xavier. Her father was born in Portugal and her mother was born in Spain. She attended from Girls' High School in Boston. Career Xavier taught Spanish in Amherst and Boston, and at the University of Vermont. She taught French, Spanish and Italian at Wellesley College in 1893 and 1894, and English at a summer school in Cuba. She also worked as secretary and translator at the Spanish and French consulates in Boston.

Xavier wrote short stories She starred in the first production of her translation, in 1915. Stephen Allard pronounced it "a bright little duologue" and recommended it for use in little theatres. In 1916 she acted in plays by Cervantes, to mark the Spanish writer's tercentenary.

Publications "Love's Sacrifice" (1896, short story) Joaquín Alvarez Quintero and Serafín Alvarez Quintero, A Sunny Morning: A Comedy of Madrid (1914, translator)

Personal life Xavier married publisher and customs official Ira Waldo Floyd in 1894. She moved to Cuba with him while he was collector of customs at Guantánamo. She died in 1922, at about age 60, in Cambridge. Her grave was in Saco, Maine.