Piracy in the Atlantic World been coerced into joining the pirate gang. Two of the other captives were not as lucky, and were "condemned to die." The third captive was pardoned. Three years later, another female pirate, Mary Crickett, along with five others, was ordered to be executed. When Mary Read and Anne Bonny were captured, they faced execution. However, once their pregnancies were known, they were pardoned from the gallows. Both women were sentenced to prison, where Mary Read eventually perished and Anne Bonny later escaped. In 1724, the first edition of A General History of Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates
Mary Anne Atwood cannot find my centre of gravity." She is buried at Leake Church, in Yorkshire. Mary Anne's first publication, "Early Magnetism in its higher relations to humanity" (1846) was issued pseudonymously as the work of Θυος Μαθος (Gk. thuos mathos), an anagram of Thomas South. Mary Anne wrote "A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery" (1850) at her father's request, and in parallel with his own composition of a lengthy poem on the same subject. Thomas South paid for the book to be published anonymously in 1850, but without having read it, trusting his daughter's judgement. Reading it after publication, he