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An oil painting of Mary of Guise (l. 1515-1560 CE), Queen of Scotland (r. 1538-1542) as the second wife of James V of Scotland (r. 1513-1542 CE). Attributed to Corneille de Lyon (1500/1510–1575). (Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh...

An illustrative portrait of Mary of Gueldres (d. 1463 CE) who married James II of Scotland (r. 1437-1460 CE) in 1449 CE.

British actress and writer Mary Darby Robinson, posing as her famous character 'Perdita', oil on canvas portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1782. Waddesdon Manor.

A c. 1790 oil on canvas portrait by John Opie of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), the feminist writer. (Tate Britain, London)

A wooden statue of Mary Magdalene by the Italian Renaissance artist Donatello (c. 1386-1466 CE). (Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence)

An artist's impression of how the pirate Mary Read (d. 1721) may have looked. Image from the computer game Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag by Ubisoft. © 2013 Ubisoft

An 1830s oil on canvas portrait by Richard Rothwell of Mary Shelley (1797-1851), author of Frankenstein. (National Portrait Gallery, London)

The English warship the Mary Rose on the 1540s CE Anthony Roll. The ship was part of Henry VIII's naval fleet but sank in a confrontation with a French fleet in July 1545 CE. (British Library, London)

The pirate Mary Read (d. 1721), illustration by Alexandre Debelle from Histoire des pirates et corsaires de l'Océan et de la Méditerranée depuis leur origine jusqu'à nos jours, P. Christian, Paris, Cavaillès, 1846.

The surviving wreck of the Mary Rose. The English warship was part of Henry VIII's naval fleet but sank in a confrontation with a French fleet in July 1545 CE. (Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, England)