Anne Bonny did for Governor Rogers. While in the Bahamas, Bonny began mingling with pirates in the local taverns. She met John "Calico Jack" Rackham, captain of the pirate sloop "Revenge", and Rackham became her lover. Rackham offered Bonny's husband, James Bonny, money in exchange for her with the purpose of divorcing, but her husband refused. Anne and Rackham escaped the island together and Bonny became a member of Rackham's crew. She disguised herself as a man on the ship and only Rackham and eventually Mary Read were privy to her true sex. When it became clear that Anne was with child,
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