This Day in History: One of the most famous female pirates of all time, Anne Bonny, was born on this day in 1697. She worked alongside Calico Jack Rackham who became her pirate partner and lover. She was captured with Rackham and Mary Read in October 1720. All three were sentenced to death, but Bonny and Read had their executions stayed because both of them were pregnant.
There were quite a few female pirates in history, such as Lady Mary Killigrew, Lady Elizabeth Killigrew, Elizabetha Patrickson, Christina Anna Skytte (Swedish), Maria Lindsey, Maria Cobham, Ingela Gathenhielm (also Swedish), Mary Farley (Carolina coast), Mary Crickett (Virginia), Flora Burn, Rachel Wall, Charlotte de Berry, Ching Shih, Charlotte Badger (aka Catherine Hagerty, the first Australian female pirate), Margaret Croke (aka Margaret Jordan, a Canadian), Johanna Hård, and Sadie the Goat. All of the 20th century female pirates that I know about were Chinese. There were also quite a few female pirates during the Viking Age.
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