Mary Read 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 the early 18th century, at the height of the Golden Age of Piracy. Mary Read was illegitimately born in England in 1685. Her mother had married a sailor and had a son. After her husband disappeared at sea, Mary's mother became pregnant from an affair. Read's mother attempted to hide the pregnancy by going
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