This installment in the Virals series was published in 2011. The story involves modern-day Charleston teenagers hunting down a treasure hidden by Anne Bonny. Anne is born in 1697. Her parents are William Cormac of Kinsale and Mary Brennan, and they move to Charleston. Anne is a teenager when her mother dies, and she is… Continue reading Seizure by Kathy Reichs
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Delilah’s Pirate by Bren Yarbrough Bruhn
This book was published in 2009. A modern day woman travels back to 1719 when she sees Ann Bonny and Jack Rackham in a tavern, and at which time Jack has already stolen the William. His clothes are colorful.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
This encyclopedia was published in 2004. Articles about Anne Bonny and Mary Read were credited to David Cordingly, who attributes information about Anne to unspecified "Evidence from her descendants". An article on John Rackam is credited to WR Meyer. "Read" is the name of Mary's mother's husband. Anne is born in 1698 and her father… Continue reading Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Heroines & Harlots/Women Sailors & Sailors’ Women/Seafaring Women by David Cordingly
This book was first published in the UK in 2001 as Heroines & Harlots: Women at Sea in the Great Age of Sail. In the US it was retitled Women Sailors & Sailors' Women: An Untold Maritime History. A later edition was titled Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways and Sailors' Wives. Cordingly… Continue reading Heroines & Harlots/Women Sailors & Sailors’ Women/Seafaring Women by David Cordingly
Pirates, Buccaneers, and Gentlemen Adventurers by EO Hoppé
This book was published in 1972. Hoppé uses Frank Stockton's version of Mary Read's parents, a merchant skipper and his lawful wife who sails with him. Mary is born at sea on her father's ship, and she spends her childhood at sea. Her brother is one year older than her. Her father dies, after which… Continue reading Pirates, Buccaneers, and Gentlemen Adventurers by EO Hoppé
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
Women Pirates: Eight Stories of Adventure/Women of the Sea: Ten Pirate Stories by Myra Weatherly
This book was published in 1998 as Women Pirates: Eight Stories of Adventure, and updated in 2006 as Women of the Sea: Ten Pirate Stories. Anne's parents are William Cormac and Peg Brennan and Weatherly includes quotations from Mistress of the Seas. They live in Charleston. When she's a teenager her mother dies. She has… Continue reading Women Pirates: Eight Stories of Adventure/Women of the Sea: Ten Pirate Stories by Myra Weatherly
Pirates of the West Indies by Clinton V. Black
This book was published in 1989. The chapter on "Jack Rackham and the Women Pirates" is adapted from Black's 1948 article Women Pirates of the Caribbean. Black writes that Jack "learnt much" from Charles Vane. Jack is ambitious and chases his promotion to captain. Like in his previous article, Black renames James Bonny as John… Continue reading Pirates of the West Indies by Clinton V. Black
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly
This extremely popular book was published in 1995. The chapter about "Women Pirates and Pirates' Women" leads with Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Cordingly writes that John Rackam was "bold and somewhat reckless" and that "it was said that he kept a harem of mistresses on the coast of Cuba." [Said by whom?] Cordingly gets… Continue reading Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly
Ladies on the High Seas
This article appeared in The New Book of Knowledge Annual published in 1978. It seems to be inspired by Philip Gosse's story, with James leaving Anne, who falls in love with "handsome daredevil" Calico Jack. They live a "happy but evil life" and after Anne is incarcerated she gives birth.
Depictions of John Rackam, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read 