Mary Read She accepted the King's pardon c. 1718–1719, then took a commission to privateer, but joined the crew in mutiny. In 1720 she joined pirate John "Calico Jack" Rackham and his companion, Anne Bonny, who both believed her to be a man. On 22 August 1720, the three stole an armed sloop named "William" from port in Nassau. Scholars are uncertain how female pirates like Read and Bonny concealed their sex in a male-dominated environment. Some scholars, however, have theorized that the wearing of breeches by female pirates may have been either a method of hiding their identity or simply as
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