This TV special written and directed by Bruce Mayer aired on PBS in 2007. It features narration by historians over dramatizations in which Mary Read is played by Barbara Gose, Anne Bonny by Liisa Rose, and Calico Jack by Joe Perry (not "the"). The events of the story are taken from the General History, with… Continue reading Carolina Stories: Pirates of the Carolinas
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Gente de mar by Rafael Bernal
This book was published in 1950. Mary Read's brother dies at 1 year old, and she is born 8 days later. She lives with her grandmother until the age of 16. Her husband dies drunk. Ana Bonny grows up in Charleston, where her father dresses her as a boy until she is 18. The boy… Continue reading Gente de mar by Rafael Bernal
The Look and Learn Book: 1974
This children's book was published in 1973. Anne Bonny is born in 1700 and her family moves to Charleston. Her mother dies three or four years later and Anne learns to ride horses and shoot pistols from "an Indian hunter." She meets James in a tavern and is ultimately released from jail and goes back… Continue reading The Look and Learn Book: 1974
The Unbinding of Mary Reade by Miriam McNamara
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
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 Lost Pirate Kingdom
This series aired on Netflix in 2021. The show features talking head interviews interspersed with dramatized vignettes, in which John Rackham is played by Jack Waldouck and Anne Bonny by Mia Tomlinson. According to the show, Anne's mother died before Anne was 13. In 1715 she is 16 years old and living in Nassau. She… Continue reading The Lost Pirate Kingdom
A Man Among Ye by Stephanie Phillips
This comic was published from 2020 to 2022. The story is by Stephanie Phillips. In the first issues the art is by Craig Cermak, and in later issues by Josh George. Eight years before the story begins, Mary Read was on a ship with her father when they were attacked by pirates. At some other… Continue reading A Man Among Ye by Stephanie Phillips
Fire on Dark Water by Wendy K. Perriman
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
Anne Bonny by Laura Perdew
This kids' book was published in 2016. It novelizes its biography with invented dialogue and narration, and includes pages that point out what is factual in the story. Anne's parents are Mary Brennan and William Cormac. Anne is 10 years old when her family leaves Ireland for Charles Town, and her mother dies in 1711.… Continue reading Anne Bonny by Laura Perdew
Anne Bonny: The Infamous Female Pirate by Phillip Thomas Tucker
This book was published in 2017. Tucker claims that Anne was born Anne Ni Cormac in Kinsale to Mary Brennan and William Cormac, and that "the best available evidence" (which Tucker does not provide or specify) puts her birth in 1698. Tucker says that the Cormacs were Protestants and Mary Brennan was Catholic. He also… Continue reading Anne Bonny: The Infamous Female Pirate by Phillip Thomas Tucker
Depictions of John Rackam, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read 