This novel was published in 2011. The story is told from the point of view of Lola, the servant stabbed by Anne Bonny, whose father William Cormac grows rice on a plantation called Black River. Anne is a brat but teaches Lola to read and write. Anne's mother Mary gets "marsh fever" and dies when… Continue reading Fire on Dark Water by Wendy K. Perriman
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Anne Bonney and Mary Read: Women Buccaneers by Mace Taxco
This novel was published in 1998. At the end of the story Taxco promises two further installments (the next book titled A Storm at Weatherly) which seem never to have been published. Taxco claims that Daniel Defoe was present at the trial of Anne Bonney and Mary Read. Mary was born in 1684. Her parents… Continue reading Anne Bonney and Mary Read: Women Buccaneers by Mace Taxco
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
Anne Bonny by Chloe Gartner
This novelization of Anne Bonny's life was published in 1977. It's told in first person as Anne's memoirs while she's in jail and owes its story to Mistress of the Seas. On the trip from England to South Carolina, Anne's mother gets very sick, and is nursed by a convict being transported--the eventual maid, Clara,… Continue reading Anne Bonny by Chloe Gartner
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
Anne of the Indies by Herbert Ravenel Sass
This article appeared in the November 1, 1947 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. Herbert Ravenel Sass was a journalist who was obsessed with his home state of South Carolina so it's no surprise he should eventually tackle Anne Bonny. Obviously, this was the property acquired for the eventual Jacques Tourneur movie of the same… Continue reading Anne of the Indies by Herbert Ravenel Sass
Depictions of John Rackam, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read 