Golden Age of Piracy on a navy ship. Many of the most well known pirates in historical lore originate from this Golden Age of Piracy. While most pirates were men, there were at least fifty cases of women entering the career of piracy (usually disguised as men). The best known female pirates were Anne Bonny (also sometimes spelled Bonney) and Mary Read. Bonny developed a notorious reputation in Nassau, and when she was unable to leave an earlier marriage, she eloped with her lover, Calico Jack Rackham. Mary Read had been dressed as a boy all her life by her mother and had spent
Mary Anne Jevons Mary Anne Jevons Mary Anne Jevons, "née" Roscoe (1795–1845) was an English poet. Mary Anne Roscoe was born into a Unitarian family at Liverpool on 5 August 1795, the eldest daughter of William Roscoe and Jane Griffies (1757-1824). She was close to her father in her youth, and inherited a good deal of his poetic talent. She contributed to "Poems for Youth, by a Family Circle", 1820–1, 2 parts (3rd edition 1841), and wrote "Poems by one of the Authors of “Poems for Youth,” &c.", 1821, 12mo, pp. 66. She married Thomas Jevons, an ironmaster, on 23 November 1825. Among