"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"
"on a navy ship. Many of the most well known pirates in historical lore originate from this Golden Age of Piracy. While most pirates were men, there were at least fifty cases of women entering the career of piracy (usually disguised as men). The best known female pirates were Anne Bonny (also sometimes spelled Bonney) and Mary Read. Bonny developed a notorious reputation in Nassau, and when she was unable to leave an earlier marriage, she eloped with her lover, Calico Jack Rackham. Mary Read had been dressed as a boy all her life by her mother and had spent"
"Jane Maria Read Jane Maria Read (October 4, 1853 – ?) was an American poet and teacher. Jane Maria Read was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, October 4, 1853. She was the daughter of William and Susan Maritta (Austin) Read. Her father, Rev. Read, was a Baptist clergyman. She came from old colonial families on both sides, and her ancestors were among the early English pioneers. Until six years of age, her home was in Massachusetts. In 1859, her parents moved to the seacoast of Maine, where they lived till 1865, at that time returning to Massachusetts. Her literary taste began"
"Jeani Read Jeani Read (February 12, 1947 – December 21, 2007) was a Canadian journalist and columnist and a pioneer in rock music criticism in Canada. Read was born in Shanghai to an Estonian mother and English father in 1947. Her family moved to Vancouver when she was a young child and she remained there all her life. She started her career at Vancouver Province in 1973 and her socially conscious column immediately became a must-read. In 1985, her columns were collected into a book called ""Endless Summers and Other Shared Hallucinations."" She was the first full-time rock critic at"
"of her poems were luminous with the calmness of her own Christian faith. Jane Maria Read Jane Maria Read (October 4, 1853 – ?) was an American poet and teacher. Jane Maria Read was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, October 4, 1853. She was the daughter of William and Susan Maritta (Austin) Read. Her father, Rev. Read, was a Baptist clergyman. She came from old colonial families on both sides, and her ancestors were among the early English pioneers. Until six years of age, her home was in Massachusetts. In 1859, her parents moved to the seacoast of Maine, where they"
"Anne Bailey Anne Bailey (1742 – November 22, 1825) was a story teller and frontier scout who served in the fights of the American Revolutionary War and the Northwest Indian War. Her single-person ride in search of an urgently needed powder supply for the endangered Clendenin's Settlement (present-day Charleston, West Virginia) was used as the template for Charles Robb's 1861 poem ""Anne Bailey's Ride"". She is known as the ""Heroine of the Kanawha Valley"". ""Mad Anne"" Bailey was born in Liverpool, England. She first arrived in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia at about the age of 19 after both of her parents"
"Mary Ann (née Thomson) and David Kelly Keay. Her father – born in Perthshire, Scotland – was a stonemason by trade, and after arriving in Australia became a successful building contractor. During her childhood the family moved around the country as her father pursued various contracts, living for periods in Adelaide, Brisbane, and Sydney. Keay completed her secondary education in Sydney, obtaining a leaving certificate from the Forest Lodge Public School in Glebe just before her 14th birthday. A short time later, her family moved to Perth, where she qualified as a schoolteacher via the monitorial system. On 1 July"
"Anne Howard Bailey Anne Howard Bailey (July 26, 1924 – November 23, 2006) was an American writer known particularly for her work as a screenwriter and opera librettist. Born and raised in Memphis, Bailey attended Rhodes College where she graduated in 1945 with a bachelor's degree in creative writing. After college she moved to New York City where she began writing for theatre and television. She was a regular contributor to the ""Armstrong Circle Theatre"" and ""Appointment with Adventure"" during the 1950s and was one of the major writers for ""National Velvet"" during the 1960s. Her most successful work as"
"Anne Moody Anne Moody (September 15, 1940 – February 5, 2015) was an American author who wrote about her experiences growing up poor and black in rural Mississippi, and her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement through the NAACP, CORE and SNCC. Moody fought racism and segregation from when she was a little girl in Centrevillle, Mississippi, and continued throughout her adult life around the American South. Moody, née Essie Mae Moody on September 15, 1940, was the oldest of eight children. After her parents split up when she was aged five or six, she grew up with her mother,"
"Joanna Read Joanna Read (born 8 March 1968) is a British theatre director and librettist. In 2010, she became the first ever female Principal of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Mrs Read read Drama at Bristol University from 1986 to 1989, directing her first few productions whilst doing her degree. Having worked on the fringe and at Sheffield in her early years (occasionally in stage management, although she also participated in the Channel 4 Regional Directors Programme), she soon joined the Education team at the Young Vic for a year, and following that became the Head"
"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,"
"to the accuracy of the Read Tea Test. The importers' lawsuit was dismissed in 1914. Read also worked on testing black pepper for added materials. She became the Assistant Chief of the Bureau's Microanalytical Laboratory before her retirement in 1930. She was an associate member of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia from 1914, and active in the Woman's Clinic Auxiliary. Read died weeks after her retirement, in 1930, from ovarian cancer. She was 57 years old. Effie Alberta Read Effie Alberta Read (born about 1873 – died September 1, 1930) was an American scientist who researched food"
"Robards, which premiered at Knoxville Opera in 1989. Bailey died of congestive heart failure in Rancho Mirage, California. Daytime Emmy Award WINS NOMINATIONS Primetime Emmy Awards WINS Christopher Award WINS Anne Howard Bailey Anne Howard Bailey (July 26, 1924 – November 23, 2006) was an American writer known particularly for her work as a screenwriter and opera librettist. Born and raised in Memphis, Bailey attended Rhodes College where she graduated in 1945 with a bachelor's degree in creative writing. After college she moved to New York City where she began writing for theatre and television. She was a regular contributor"
"subsequently used as part of the charter agreement for establishing Channel 4. Anthony Read Anthony ""Tony"" Read (21 April 1935 – 21 November 2015) was a British script editor, television writer and author. He was principally active in British television from the 1960s to the mid-1980s, although he occasionally contributed to televised productions until 1999. Beginning in the 1980s, he launched a second career as a print author, concentrating largely on World War II histories. Since 2004 he regularly wrote prose fiction, mainly in the form of a revival of his television series ""The Baker Street Boys"" (1983). Read was"
"Anthony Read Anthony ""Tony"" Read (21 April 1935 – 21 November 2015) was a British script editor, television writer and author. He was principally active in British television from the 1960s to the mid-1980s, although he occasionally contributed to televised productions until 1999. Beginning in the 1980s, he launched a second career as a print author, concentrating largely on World War II histories. Since 2004 he regularly wrote prose fiction, mainly in the form of a revival of his television series ""The Baker Street Boys"" (1983). Read was born in the small mining community of Cheslyn Hay, Staffordshire. He originally"
"Ann Rule Ann Rae Rule (née Stackhouse; October 22, 1931 – July 26, 2015) was an American author of true crime books and articles. She is best-known for ""The Stranger Beside Me"" (1980), about the serial killer Ted Bundy with whom Rule worked and who she considered a friend but was later revealed to be a murderer. Rule was also known for her book ""Small Sacrifices"", about Oregon child murderer Diane Downs. Many of Rule's books center on murder cases that occurred in the Pacific Northwest and her adopted home state of Washington. Ann Rae Stackhouse was born on October"
"her memory. In its first year it was judged by Penelope Shuttle and won by Suzanne Batty. Anne Born Anne Born (9 July 1924 – 27 July 2011) was a British poet, local historian, writer and translator. Anne Rosemary Cookes was born in south London on 9 July 1924. She joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry during the Second World War, and taught Morse code at the SOE at Grendon Underwood, Bucks, where she met Povl Born, a Danish air force pilot. In 1946 they married and moved to Copenhagen, where she studied English literature at the university. She became"
"aged 99. Annie Barnes (academic) Annie Barnes (1903–2003) was Reader in French Literature at the University of Oxford, 1966–71. Barnes was born in Geneva and took her doctorate at the University of Bern. Her initial employment in Oxford was at Somerville College and Lady Margaret Hall. She became Lecturer in French at St Anne's Society, Oxford, in 1947, and was one of the Founding Fellows when it was chartered as St Anne's College, Oxford in 1952. She was appointed University Reader in 1966. At retirement in 1971 she was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Anne's. She died on 17"
"John M. Read John Meredith Read Sr. (July 21, 1797 – November 29, 1874) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was one of the founders of the Republican Party and Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Read John was born on Chestnut Street across the street from Independence Hall, the eldest son of lawyer John Read and Martha Meredith Read. Both of his grandfathers (George Read and Samuel Meredith) had served in the Continental Congress. After an education at home, Read graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, then read law, and was admitted to"
"in Charleston, West Virginia and a lookout tower in Watoga State Park. Anne Bailey Anne Bailey (1742 – November 22, 1825) was a story teller and frontier scout who served in the fights of the American Revolutionary War and the Northwest Indian War. Her single-person ride in search of an urgently needed powder supply for the endangered Clendenin's Settlement (present-day Charleston, West Virginia) was used as the template for Charles Robb's 1861 poem ""Anne Bailey's Ride"". She is known as the ""Heroine of the Kanawha Valley"". ""Mad Anne"" Bailey was born in Liverpool, England. She first arrived in Shenandoah Valley,"
"1917. In August 1915, Mahony read an ""Atlantic Monthly"" article titled ""A New Profession for Women"" by Earl Barnes, that gloriously painted bookselling as a profession for women. This article, combined with her work with children's plays, prompted Mahony to create a bookstore for children. Mahony enlisted the support of experts in children's literature to fill in her information gaps. She talked to the Boston Public Library's Alice Jordan as well as Frederic Melcher. She visited the Central Children's Room in New York and met Anne Carroll Moore. Other icons in children's literature whom she visited included Clara Hunt and"
"Mary Anne Keeley Mary Anne Keeley, ""née"" Goward (22 November 1805 – 12 March 1899) was an English actress and actor-manager. Mary Ann Goward was born at Ipswich, her father was a brazier and tinman. Her sister Sarah Judith Goward was the mother of Lydia Foote. Goward's singing talents were noticed by the Ipswich writer Elizabeth Cobbold and she encouraged her to take to the stage. After some experience in the provinces, she first appeared on the stage in London on 2 July 1825 in the opera ""Rosina"". It was not long before she gave up singing parts in favour"
"was a graduate student at Cornell University, she was an assistant in the Histology and Embryology Department, teaching and researching under professor Simon Henry Gage; Gage's expertise in microscopy shaped Read's later work. Read's work at the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Chemistry (the precursor to the U. S. Food and Drug Administration) focused on the detection of adulterated foods, following the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. She invented a quick test, known as the Read Tea Test, for detecting artificial dyes and other impurities in imported tea. There were legal objections from tea importers, as"
"producing reforms by federal officials.""[2][3] Anne Hull Anne Hull is an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at ""The Washington Post"". Hull began her career at the ""St. Petersburg Times"" in Florida. She answered phones on the city desk before becoming a reporter, and was later the paper's national correspondent. Her story ""Metal to Bone"" depicted a police squad working in a public housing project in Tampa. She followed a group of women from rural Mexico as H2-B guest workers in a crab processing plant in North Carolina. The series, ""Una Vida Mejor,"" was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Hull joined"
"many people) needed time to heal from the physical and psychological wounds received during those efforts. She lived in New York City, worked as a counselor for the New York City Poverty Program, and had been working on a book, ""The Clay Guilly"", prior to her death. Anne Moody Anne Moody (September 15, 1940 – February 5, 2015) was an American author who wrote about her experiences growing up poor and black in rural Mississippi, and her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement through the NAACP, CORE and SNCC. Moody fought racism and segregation from when she was a little"
"to gain success in the male-dominated business world. Anne Catherine Hoof Green Anne Catherine Hoof Green (1720March 23, 1775) was a printer and publisher in Maryland. Anne Hoof was most likely born in the Netherlands around 1720. She emigrated to Philadelphia with her parents sometime between 1720 and 1738. She married Jonas Green (c.1720-1767) at Christ's Church in Philadelphia on April 25, 1738 and had fourteen children, with six surviving infancy. In 1738, Anne and Jonas moved to Annapolis where they later revived the dormant Maryland Gazette in 1745. The Maryland Gazette was one of the first newspapers published in"
"Annie Barnes (academic) Annie Barnes (1903–2003) was Reader in French Literature at the University of Oxford, 1966–71. Barnes was born in Geneva and took her doctorate at the University of Bern. Her initial employment in Oxford was at Somerville College and Lady Margaret Hall. She became Lecturer in French at St Anne's Society, Oxford, in 1947, and was one of the Founding Fellows when it was chartered as St Anne's College, Oxford in 1952. She was appointed University Reader in 1966. At retirement in 1971 she was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Anne's. She died on 17 January 2003,"
"Marie Mattingly Meloney Marie Mattingly Meloney (1878–1943), who used Mrs. William B. Meloney as her professional and social name, was ""one of the leading woman journalists of the United States"", a magazine editor and a socialite who in the 1920s organized a fund drive to buy radium for Marie Curie and began a movement for better housing. In the 1930s she was a friend and confidante of Eleanor Roosevelt. She was nicknamed Missy. Marie Mattingly was born in December 8, 1878, in Bardstown, Kentucky, the daughter of Cyprian Peter Mahoney, a physician, and the former Sarah Irwin, who was founder"
"Rest Nursing Home in Paramus, New Jersey. Mary Petty Mary Petty (April 29, 1899 – September 24, 1976) was an illustrator of books and magazines best remembered for a series of covers done for ""The New Yorker"" featuring her invented Peabody family. Mary Petty was born in Hampton, New Jersey to Robert Davison Petty, a law professor at the New York Law School, and Florence Servis, a schoolteacher. In 1922, Petty graduated from the Horace Mann School in New York City. She did not formally study art, but taught herself to draw. Petty met ""New Yorker"" cartoonist Alan Dunn around"
"Anne Carroll Moore Anne Carroll Moore (July 12, 1871 – January 20, 1961) was an American educator, writer and advocate for children's libraries. She was named Annie after an aunt, and officially changed her name to Anne in her fifties, to avoid confusion with Annie E. Moore, another woman who was also publishing material about juvenile libraries at that time. From 1906 to 1941 she headed children's library services for the New York Public Library system. Moore wrote ""Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story"", one of two runners-up for the 1925 Newbery Medal. Moore was born in Limerick, Maine. She had"
"Anne Born Anne Born (9 July 1924 – 27 July 2011) was a British poet, local historian, writer and translator. Anne Rosemary Cookes was born in south London on 9 July 1924. She joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry during the Second World War, and taught Morse code at the SOE at Grendon Underwood, Bucks, where she met Povl Born, a Danish air force pilot. In 1946 they married and moved to Copenhagen, where she studied English literature at the university. She became fluent in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. She began writing poetry and, at the same time, began translating"
"Lowry Field during World War II. Later in her career, she remodeled Bob Hope’s Beverly Hills house Margaret Read Margaret Read (1892–1982) was the first female architect in Boulder, Colorado. Born in Iowa, she relocated with her parents to Boulder in 1910. After attending the University of Boulder for two years, she transferred to the University of California at Berkeley in the architecture program, where she was one of five women in the class. Upon returning to Boulder, she was hired by the offices of Glen H. Huntington in 1926. Huntington's was Boulder's sole architectural firm at that time In"
"Mary Allen Mary Allen (born 22 August 1951) is a British writer, broadcaster, arts administrator and management consultant best known for her controversial and turbulent period as Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House. She was educated at the School of St Helen and St Katharine in Abingdon, New Hall, Cambridge and the University of East Anglia (MA Creative Writing). In the early 1970s she worked under the name of Mary Adames as an actress in repertory theatre and the West End. She appeared in an early London production of ""The Rocky Horror Show"" and toured with ""Godspell"". After working"