Blackbeard amusement park rides. Much of what is known about him can be sourced to Charles Johnson's "A General Historie of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates", published in Britain in 1724. A recognised authority on the pirates of his time, Johnson's descriptions of such figures as Anne Bonny and Mary Read were for years required reading for those interested in the subject. Readers were titillated by his stories and a second edition was quickly published, though author Angus Konstam suspects that Johnson's entry on Blackbeard was "coloured a little to make a more sensational story." "A General
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