This young adult novel was published in 2018. Jack Rackam says he became a pirate when he was 13 on a ship that was attacked by pirates. He works as a cabin boy and the captain abuses him. As a child Anne Bonny moves to Charleston from Ireland. She marries James when she is 14… Continue reading The Unbinding of Mary Reade by Miriam McNamara
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Why We Love Pirates: The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever by Rebecca Simon
This book was published in 2020. Simon says that Jack Rackham was born on December 26, 1682 and Mary Read was born in 1685. Her mother does not tell her she is a girl. Anne Bonny's mother dies in childbirth, and her father takes her to London where he practices law. His in-laws find out… Continue reading Why We Love Pirates: The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever by Rebecca Simon
A Short History of Queer Women by Kirsty Loehr
This book was published in 2022. Mary Read dresses as a boy to claim an inheritance, but then continues dressing as a boy, which makes her mother disown her. Anne Bonny lives with her father in South Carolina in the early 1700s, where she is an alcoholic and burns her father's plantation. Anne runs away… Continue reading A Short History of Queer Women by Kirsty Loehr
Tell No Tales: Pirates of the Southern Seas by Sam Maggs and Kendra Wells
This comic book was published in 2021. The story is set explicitly in 1715, at which point Anne Bonny has broken up with Jack Rackham and now captains a crew on which her lover Mary Read serves as quartermaster. Mary Read goes just by Read and is never referred to with third person pronouns, but… Continue reading Tell No Tales: Pirates of the Southern Seas by Sam Maggs and Kendra Wells
The Female Sidekick: From Myth to Reality by Jess Nevins
This article was published in 2014 in Velvet #6. Nevins says Jack Rackham is born in 1682 and Anne Bonney in 1702. Anne is the lover of Mary Read and Jack of Pierre Bouspeut. Anne dies in 1782.
The Sea Captain and the Lady by Vada Foster
This novel was published in 2008. Mary Read's mother dies when Mary is a teenager. Her soldier husband falls in love with her believing she is a man, and she marries him for his family's farm. In 1717 Mary and Jack Rackham are sailing on the William, a privateer which turns pirate after a mutiny.… Continue reading The Sea Captain and the Lady by Vada Foster
The Rough Guide to Sex by James McConnachie
This book was published in 2010. It describes Anne Bonny and Mary Read as an "Irish seventeenth-century" lesbian couple.
Piratas by Vicente Francisco Torres
This article appeared in the January 4, 2009 issue of Siempre! It says Anne Bonny and Mary Read were both bisexual and were in a relationship until their deaths.
Focus of Desire by Elise Matthesen
This story was published in the 2008 anthology Haunted Hearths & Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories. The protagonist reads a book of lesbian erotica that features a story about Anne Bonney and Mary Read having sex with a "gradually enthusiastic captive."
History’s Monsters: 101 Villains From Vlad the Impaler to Adolf Hitler by Simon Sebag Montefiore
This book was published in 2008. Mary Read is raised as a boy to get an inheritance. Anne Bonny's maiden name is Cormac and she is raised in South Carolina. Anne joins Jack Rackham's crew in disguise on a ship called the Revenge, which is what the pirates are sailing when they are captured in… Continue reading History’s Monsters: 101 Villains From Vlad the Impaler to Adolf Hitler by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Depictions of John Rackam, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read 