Mary Read practical clothing that solidified their working place on board the ship among the other seamen. When Bonny told Read that she was a woman (apparently because she was attracted to her), Read revealed that she too was a woman. To abate the jealousy of her lover, Rackham, who suspected romantic involvement between the two, Bonny told him that Read was a woman. Speculation over the relationship between Bonny and Read led to images depicting the two in battle together. A victim of the pirates, Dorothy Thomas, left a description of Read and Bonny: They "wore men's jackets, and long trousers,
Mary Grace Kovar Mary Grace Kovar Mary Grace Kovar (July 6, 1929 – September 21, 2015) was an American biostatistician. Kovar worked as chief of the Analytical Coordination Branch of the Division of Analysis at the National Center for Health Statistics. For many years she was the coordinator of "Health, United States", a series of books reporting the health statistics of Americans. By 1996, she had retired from the NCHS, and had became a senior research scientist at NORC at the University of Chicago. She was a vice president at NORC by 2000. She married (as his second wife) another biostatistician at the