Out of the Closet

age of revolution

Copyright Louis Paul Hennefeld 1983

 

Mary Read

(???? - 1720)

Anne Bonney

(???? - ????)

WOMEN PIRATES

         

        

 

Mary Read and Anne Bonney were lesbian lovers who fought together

on the high seas.  Mary once saved her companion's life in a duel.

Captured and sentenced to the gallows, Mary died of fever in prison.

Anne Bonney was eventually set free to retire to South Carolina.

Copyright Louis Paul Hennefeld 1983