This article was published in the June-July 1977 issue of Young World. Anne Bonney meets Jack Rackham in Charleston. Mary Read joins the crew while Anne is having Jack's child in Cuba, and she also sleeps with Jack. Jaffee says that Anne and Mary were both pirate captains.
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Mort ou vif: Les chasses à l’homme les plus extraordinaires by Pierre Bellemare and Jean-François Nahmias
This book was published in 2007. Mary Read is born in Redruth, Cornwall. Her mother's husband was a naval officer. Mary's brother Mark dies before she is born. Read is a married name that she gets from her first husband, William Read. She leaves Europe on a Dutch merchantman transporting wheat, which is captured by… Continue reading Mort ou vif: Les chasses à l’homme les plus extraordinaires by Pierre Bellemare and Jean-François Nahmias
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
Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs & European Renegadoes by Peter Lamborn Wilson
This book was published in 1995. Lamborn Wilson describes Ann Bonney and Mary Reade as Jack Rackham's wives.
Gli italiani alla conquista del West: Tex Willer in tricolore by Luigi Grassia
This book was published in 2018. Grassia writes that Ann Bonny is born in 1698 and grows up in South Carolina. She stabs a maid but doesn't get in trouble because of her rich family. Mary Read's boss when she is 13 is a country squire who teaches her to ride, shoot, and fence, and… Continue reading Gli italiani alla conquista del West: Tex Willer in tricolore by Luigi Grassia
The Woman Magician: Revisioning Western Metaphysics From a Woman’s Perspective and Experience by Brandy Williams
This book was published in 2011. Williams writes that Anne Bonny and Mary Read "both seem to have been" Jack Rackham's lovers and that only the two of them fought during their arrest.
Rhumb Line Bend by CG McDaniel
This installment in the Krewe of Jupiter series was published in 2007. According to the (contemporary) characters, John Rackham pirated in the Bight of Acklins on a ship called the Adventure, and collected his victims' heads. He was married to Anne Bonny and they had a threesome with Mary Read. They captured a ship called… Continue reading Rhumb Line Bend by CG McDaniel
Myth, Fact, and Navigators’ Secrets: Incredible Tales of the Sea and Sailors by J. Gregory Dill
This book was published in 2006. Dill gives John Rackham the nickname "Handsome Jack" and says that Anne Bonny and Mary Read were both his lovers.
The Accumulation of Cultural Capital in “Cork: European City of Culture 2005” by Kieran Keohane
This article was published in the Spring 2006 issue of The Irish Review. Keohane writes that Anne Bonny was born in 1698 and died in 1720. He describes her as a tomboy and says that she, Mary Read, and Calico Jack were a sexual triad. Keohane cites Marian Broderick for this information.
Dead Man’s Chest/The Treasure of Dead Man’s Chest by Roger L. Johnson
This novel was published in 1992. It's set at the beginning of the American Revolution and Ann Bonny appears as the mother of one of the characters, revealed at the end of the book. She is in her seventies during the course of the book, in the 1770s. Johnson goes out of his way to… Continue reading Dead Man’s Chest/The Treasure of Dead Man’s Chest by Roger L. Johnson
Depictions of John Rackam, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read 