Booty: Girl Pirates on the High Seas by Sara Lorimer
Booty Contents Further Reading The Author Links	Contents The pirate women to be found in Booty Sadie the Goat Moved her street gang to the more lucrative waters of the Hudson River - New York State, 1860s Cheng I Sao Led a fleet of 2,000 ships and made her men drink a firey cocktail of wine and gunpowder - South China Seas, 1801-1810 Alfhild Became a pirate to avoid an arranged marriage - Baltic and North Seas, 9th century Rachel Wall Traded her devout Presbyterian upbringing for lewd and wicked company - New England coast, late 18th century Mary Read & Anne Bonny Mary Read killed one pirate for the love of another, and Anne Bonny, the most famous of all female pirates - the Caribbean, 1710s - 1720 Charlotte de Berry Had enough adventures for ten women - Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, mid 17th century Lai Choi San The Queen of the Macao Pirates - Pearl River, China - 1920s - 1930s Lady Mary Killigrew Kept up the family business of piracy - Cornish coast, 1580s Grace O'Malley (Granuaile) Was still raiding ships into her seventies - west coast of Ireland, 1550s - 1603 Fanny Campbell Went to sea to rescue her fiance from a Cuban prison - American colonies, 1775 Anonymous Indian pirate queen Perhaps the only Indian woman in history to command a vast fleet of ships - Arabian Sea, 1680s
	Copyright 2003 Sara Lorimer