ANNE BONNY (c.1698 – c.1725s) AN IRISH PIRATE
ANNE BONNY (c.1698 – c.1725s) AN IRISH PIRATE It was common belief among pirates that having women aboard a ship was bad luck. It didn’t prevent a few swashbuckling ladies from joining and even leading bands of buccaneers. Anne Bonny, or Bonney, has been the inspiration for countless stories, books, films, songs and other works. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), pseudonym Captain Charles Johnson, wrote about her in History of the Pyrates (1724). She is one of seventy-five portraits in Marian…
