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 Anne Hardy social topics, and short stories, for journals and magazines. Iza Duffus Hardy, also known as a writer, was her daughter. Attribution Mary Anne Hardy Mary Anne Hardy (c.1825–1891), name before marriage Mary Anne MacDowell, known also as Lady Duffus Hardy, with novels published under the pseudonym Addlestone Hill, was an English novelist and travel writer. She was the only child of Charles MacDowell and Eliza, his second wife, born in Fitzroy Square, London, about 1825; her father had died five months before. She was entirely educated at home. She became the second wife of Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy, whom she