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Mary Read Pirate Wench was written in 1934, Shay based his work of the life of famed pirate Mary Read on the available histories. In this delightful novel she is depicted as a fetching pirate wench who roams the Romantic Carribees, despoiling shipping and taking lovers. Read lived disguised as a boy by her mother, from an early age, as an adult she proved herself in the military, and aboard ships. When a West Indies bound ship that she was on was taken by pirates, she was forced her to join them. In 1720 she joined pirate John "Calico Jack" Rackham and his companion, the female pirate Anne Bonny. The rest as they say, is history.

A combined edition of Z.E. Stone's 1906 essay on the Rise, Progress and Decline of Lowell’s Once Popular Newspaper the Vox Populi (1841 - 1896) with Biographical Sketches of those involved bound together with "Journalism in Lowell" from History of Lowell and Its People by Frederick William Coburn written in 1920. Fully indexed.  This book contains biographies of many local newspapermen and lists all the area newspapers of the time.