This article was published in the July 1981 issue of Seventeen. Sprenger-Farley writes that Mary Read served in the Dutch navy and that Anne Bonney was from South Carolina.
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Pirates in Petticoats
This article was published in the December 4, 1919 issue of the Daily Intelligencer. Anne Bonney runs away with her husband while dressed as a man. After their wedding she learns he is a pirate and works with him at sea. Anne meets Mary Read when they are working on separate pirate ships that fight,… Continue reading Pirates in Petticoats
Female Pirates
This article was published in the April 23, 1910 issue of Harper's Weekly. Mary Read is 19 before she works as a sailor or soldier, and her soldier husband also becomes a pirate. Anne Bonney dresses as a man to run away from home with her husband, with whom she works as a pirate. When… Continue reading Female Pirates
The Bahamas: It Really Is Better by Jon Everett
This article was published in the October 1982 issue of Atlantic Insight and says that Anne Bonney and Mary Read led boarding parties topless.
Cover Re-Sister: Anne Bonney
This article was published in the June 1988 issue of Re-Sister, according to which Anne Bonney and Jack Rackham press Mary Read off of a Dutch merchantman, and instead of a love interest, it is Jack for whom she fights a duel. The pirates rob Dorothy Thomas in October 1720.
Masqueraded As Men: Women, Who Sailed on Pirate Ships, Once Sentenced to Death
This article was published in the September 7, 1907 issue of the Victoria Daily Times. It says Mary Read lived in France when she married her soldier husband, who dies a few years later, and Anne Bonney dresses as a man to elope with her husband. They are arrested and tried as men, and it's… Continue reading Masqueraded As Men: Women, Who Sailed on Pirate Ships, Once Sentenced to Death
Donne pirate del Secolo XVIII
This article was published in the February 18, 1935 issue of the Gazzetta di Venezia. In the story Mary Read works to support her grandmother, and the pirates who recruit her are the crew of John Rackam. They are tried with Charles Johnson (?) who dies in 1734 (?).
Wolves of the Sea: Two Women Pirates by MV Campbell
This article was published in the June 1909 issue of Uncle Sam's Magazine. When Mary Read joins a privateer crew that turns pirate, Jack Rackam and Ann Bonny are a married couple and both on the crew. Ann's family disowned her when she married him. Mary's new lover is a painter whom Jack recruits to… Continue reading Wolves of the Sea: Two Women Pirates by MV Campbell
Swashbuckling Lady by Don Wyckoff
This biography of Mary Read was published in the May 1977 issue of Argosy. Wyckoff writes that Mary's not-grandmother did not like girls, and Mary has her hair cut by her mother. She serves in the army under Marlborough and in the navy during Queen Anne's reign. When she works on a man of war… Continue reading Swashbuckling Lady by Don Wyckoff
Profile of the Turks & Caicos Islands by Colin Rickards
This article was published in the March 1977 issue of Caribbean Business News and says that Anne Bonny and Mary Read used Pine Cay for their headquarters.
Depictions of John Rackam, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read 