This novel was published in 2010 and features a passage from the point of view of Jack Rackham during the days surrounding his arrest, by which time he and Anne Bonny have sailed together for years. She and Mary Read are both quartermasters. A few days before his arrest Jack has been drinking for several… Continue reading Promises: Based on a True Experience With Schizophrenia by Adam Jack Pelley
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Real Skills With Readings: Sentences and Paragraphs for College, Work, and Everyday Life by Susan Anker
This textbook was published in 2007. One grammar exercise uses the story of Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Anne is Jack's first mate on a ship called the Vanity. They are ultimately captured by the British Navy.
Pirates by Mark Lee
This play was first performed in 1991. It stages a contemporary storyline about a historian alongside events in the life of Anne Bonney. As a child Anne lived as a boy for eight years. At some point her father taught her to fence. Her family lived in Charleston before she ran away from her father… Continue reading Pirates by Mark Lee
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
Wind From the Main by Anne Osborne
This novelization of Anne Bonny's life was published in 1972. Anne's father is named Archibald Tyndale and when they came to Carolina in 1708 they were not as rich as they are when the story begins. In earlier days he used to deal with pirates, and Anne's mother died when Anne was 14. Now her… Continue reading Wind From the Main by Anne Osborne
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 Bonny, Pirate Queen: The True Saga of a Fabulous Female Buccaneer by Douglas Brown
This novel was published in 1962 and honestly...I love it. Douglas Brown was a pseudonym of writer and magician (!) Walter Brown Gibson. 😍 Cover by Bob Stanley. She Could Fight Like The Devil And Love Like An Angel. Fuckin, hell yeah Anne's maiden name is given as Tyrell and her father Timothy is from… Continue reading Anne Bonny, Pirate Queen: The True Saga of a Fabulous Female Buccaneer by Douglas Brown
Les femmes pirates by Henry Musnik
The rather lovely cover featuring art by Jean Bernard This book was published in France in 1934 and a Spanish translation was published in 2007, which is much easier to come by. Musnik prolifically wrote crime and police stories, and wrote his own pirate woman novel in 1954 called Célinda (which I have not read).… Continue reading Les femmes pirates by Henry Musnik
Depictions of John Rackam, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read 