This book was published in 1960. Mary Read is from Cornwall and her grandfather was a sea captain. Her first husband is an officer in the military who dies within a year of their wedding. Anne Bonney meets "Captain Bonney" at a dance in Charleston. They marry secretly and she goes to sea with him.… Continue reading Love and the English by Nina Epton
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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
Historias secretas de la piratería by Ernesto Frers
This book was published in 2012. According to Frers, Mary Read's mother is an upper class woman whose son dies of a fever. Her husband also dies, and she dresses Mary as a boy to inherit money from him. Jack Rackham (also called Rackham el Rojo) works as Charles Vane's quartermaster on the ship Treasure.… Continue reading Historias secretas de la piratería by Ernesto Frers
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
DK Smithsonian Journey: An Illustrated History of Travel
This children's book was published in 2017. It says Anne Bonny worked as Jack Rackam's first mate, and the ship on which Jonathan Barnet arrested them was called the Revenge.
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
The Pirates by Sam Jones
This book was published in 2016. Mary Read's mother's husband was a sea captain, and the mother already receives money from the grandmother before Mary starts pretending to be her brother. Anne Bonny's father is William McCormac. They and Anne's mother move to London where William changes his name from McCormac to Cormac and dresses… Continue reading The Pirates by Sam Jones
A Calendar of Tales by Neil Gaiman
This short story was published in the 2015 anthology Trigger Warning. In this story Anne Bonny is 11 years old when her family moves to America, and that is the first time she dresses as a girl. As a pirate she works as first mate to "Red Rackham". She goes back to her father three… Continue reading A Calendar of Tales by Neil Gaiman
Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag by Oliver Bowden
This tie-in novel to Assassin's Creed IV was published in 2013. It follows the events of the game (not including the 21st century framing story), narrated by Edward Kenway. Mary is in Nassau in September 1715, during the cutscene from the game when Edward tells Blackbeard and Benjamin Hornigold about the Observatory. Like in the… Continue reading Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag by Oliver Bowden
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
This installment in the Assassin's Creed series came out in 2013. The player character is employed at Abstergo, a tech company with virtual reality software that allows users to witness the experiences of dead people. Instead of using this technology to, for example, solve crimes, the player character is tasked with harvesting cinematic footage from… Continue reading Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
Depictions of John Rackam, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read 