Anne Bonny is recorded that Bonny had red hair and was considered a "good catch", but may have had a fiery temper; at age 13, she supposedly stabbed a servant girl with a knife. She married a poor sailor and small-time pirate named James Bonny. James hoped to win possession of his father-in-law's estate, but Bonny was disowned by her father. Bonny's father did not approve of James Bonny as a husband for his daughter and he kicked Anne out of their house. There is a story that Bonny set fire to her father's plantation in retaliation; but no evidence exists in
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