Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Mary Read
Standard Name: Read, Mary
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28 November 1720: At a trial in Spanish Town, Jamaica, Anne...
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28 November 1720
At a trial in Spanish Town, Jamaica, Anne Bonny
and Mary Read
were found guilty of piracy and sentenced to hang. However, after each claimed that she was pregnant, both were spared the death penalty.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
