This book was originally published in German in 1992. In 1997 it was translated into English and bound with an essay by Gabriel Kuhn under the title Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger. Anne Bonny and Mary Read each have their own chapters, inspired heavily by Mistress of the Seas. Like some… Continue reading Piratinnen/Women Pirates by Ulrike Klausmann and Marion Meinzerin
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Abendteuer auf See: Über Piratinnen und andere Seefrauen/Das Meer gehört uns by Helga Helsper
This book was published in 1991 under the title Abendteuer auf See, and was republished in 2004 as Das Meer gehört uns. It includes biographies of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, referring explicitly to Pamela Jekel and Susan Baker. Mary's grandmother does not bequeath her anything because she thought Mary was a badly behaved child.… Continue reading Abendteuer auf See: Über Piratinnen und andere Seefrauen/Das Meer gehört uns by Helga Helsper
Sea Star: The Private Life of Anne Bonny, Pirate Queen by Pamela Jekel
This novel was published in 1983. It retells the story presented in John Carlova's Mistress of the Seas, informed by some of his acolytes, notably Chloe Gartner's Anne Bonny and a touch of Wind From the Main by Anne Osborne (who may be the "A. Osborn of the South Carolina Historical Society" thanked in the… Continue reading Sea Star: The Private Life of Anne Bonny, Pirate Queen by Pamela Jekel
Bloody Bay/The Captain’s Ladies/Sisters of the Sea by Sandra Riley
This book was first published in 1980 under the titles Bloody Bay (in the UK) and The Captain's Ladies (in the US). In 2003 Riley self published it as Sisters of the Sea, and at some point adapted it into a play. The back cover of The Captain's Ladies bizarrely markets it as a love… Continue reading Bloody Bay/The Captain’s Ladies/Sisters of the Sea by Sandra Riley
Anne Bonny & Mary Read: They Killed Pricks by Susan Baker
This article was published in the August 1972 issue of The Furies, and was republished a few times thereafter. It uses Mistress of the Seas as its main source of information and comes in strong by insisting that Anne and Mary were lovers whose "story has been mistold and untold" because men are afraid of… Continue reading Anne Bonny & Mary Read: They Killed Pricks by Susan Baker
Mistress of the Seas by John Carlova
Ladies and gentlemen...welcome to violence. This masterpiece of campy exploitation was published in 1964 and bills itself (and gets billed over and over again) as a biography of Anne Bonny, who is depicted as essentially a Russ Meyer Supervixen. Carlova introduces Anne as a glamorous figure and writes that "with her voluptuous charms and cheerfully… Continue reading Mistress of the Seas by John Carlova
Depictions of John Rackam, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read 