Anne Bonny (1697-1721) and she are the best-known pirates in history and the only ones tried and punished by piracy. They both acted together in the Golden Age of Piracy.

Mary was born in England in 1685. From a young age, he was also called Mark, and his mother wore the boys' clothing. Shortly after the death of her mother's husband died the son they both had before. Mary was born out of an extramarital relationship and we have no news of her biological father. Her mother found a solution to hide her fake son and improve her precarious economic situation: Mary, dressed as her brother Mark dead and with her name, got her husband's family to help her financially.

Mary got her first job dressed as a boy. He worked as a slave, first on land and then on a boat. He also participated in the British army. He abandoned the man's appearances and married a Flemish soldier, but the wedding was short. At the death of her husband, she returned to dressing as a man and to go out to the sea.

Around 1708, the pirates attacked Read's ship and had no objection to joining them. In 1920 he joined John Calico Jack Rackham and his partner, Anne Bonny. Both women supposedly knew that the other was a woman. And John Rackhami Bonny himself told her that Read was a woman, because Rackham suspected that Bonny and Read had a romance. Historians don't know what the relationship was really like between them and don't know if they were hiding in that male world that they were women or just because it was much more comfortable to dress up as men. The couple was described this way by Dorothy Thomas: “They wore male jackets, long pants and head wrapped in scarves. They had a machete and a pistol in their hands, they threw insults and threes, and they asked the men to kill me.” Thomas was clear that they were women “by the size of the breasts”.

Read, Bonny and the entire crew were arrested on November 15, 1720. After they were tried, they were all sentenced to death by hanging, but as the two women were pregnant, they decided to postpone the sentence until delivery. We don't know if Read died in childbirth or before. And Bonny didn't know him from then on, didn't escape, didn't even run him. With the murder of Mary Read, Anne Bonny's mark was lost.