Mary Read child" (known as "pleading the belly"), and received temporary stays of execution. Read died of a violent fever while in prison. Her 28 April 1721 burial is in the records of St. Catherine's church in Jamaica. There is no record of the burial of her baby, suggesting that she may have died while pregnant. Mary Read Mary Read (1685 – 28 April 1721), also known as Mark Read, was an English pirate. She and Anne Bonny are two of the most famed female pirates of all time, and among the few women known to have been convicted of piracy during
Mary Anne Atwood Chymical Wedding" (1989). The book "A Suggestive Inquiry..." was being read by Pink in the music video for the single "U + Ur Hand". Mary Anne Atwood Mary Anne Atwood (née South), (1817–1910), was an English writer on hermeticism and spiritual alchemy. She was born in Dieppe, France but grew up in Gosport, Hampshire. Her father, Thomas South, was a researcher into the history of spirituality, and she assisted and collaborated with her father from her youth. Mary Anne married the Anglican Reverend Alban Thomas Atwood in 1859, and moved to his parish near Thirsk in North Yorkshire where she