Category: Europe

Fashions in Europe. European Costume and Cultural History.

Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Women pirates. The Golde Age of piracy.

Anne Bonny, famous, female, pirates,

THE life of a pirate on the high seas was hardly likely to attract even the most adventurous woman, yet according to records left by Captain Charles Johnson there were at least two who followed that calling, dressed in sailors’ clothes, and who lived and fought in desperate frays in the early eighteenth century.