Booty:
Girl Pirates on the High Seas
by Sara Lorimer
Booty
Contents
Further
Reading
The Author
LinksFurther Reading - By Pirate
If you're looking for information on particular pirate women, here are some good places to start:
Alfhild
Saxo, Grammaticus. The First Nine Books of the Danish History, 13th century AD.
Lady Mary Killigrew
Williams, Neville. Captains Outrageous: Seven Centuries of Piracy. London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1961.
Yolen, Jane H. Pirates in Petticoats. New York: Van Rees Press, 1963.
Granuaile, or Grace O'Malley
Chambers, Anne. Granuaile: The Life and Times of Grace O'Malley c. 1530-1603. Dublin: Wolfhound Press, originally published 1979, second edition 1988.
Charlotte de Berry
Yolen, Jane H. Pirates in Petticoats. New York: Van Rees Press, 1963.
Anonymous Indian Pirate
Saletore, Rajaram Narayan. Indian Pirates: from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, 1978.
Mary Read and Anne Bonny
Johnson, Charles. A General History of the Pyrates. London: T. Warner, 1724.
The Tryals of Captain John Rackham and other Pirates Jamaica: Robert Baldwin, 1721.
Rachel Wall
Williams, Daniel E. Pillars of Salt: An Anthology of Early American Criminal Narratives. Madison, Wisconsin: Madison House, 1993.
Fanny Campbell
De Pauw, Linda Grant. Seafaring Women. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982.
Snow, Edward Rowe. True Tales of Pirates and Their Gold. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1953
Cheng I Sao
Glasspoole, Richard. Mr. Glasspoole and the Chinese Pirates. London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1935.
Murray, Dian H. Pirates of the South China Coast, 1790-1810. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987.
Sadie the Goat
Asbury, Herbert. The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld. Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Co., 1928.
Crapsey, Edward. The Nether Side of New York; or, the Vice, Crime, and Poverty of the Great Metropolis. New York: Sheldon & Company, 1872.
Sante, Luc. Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York. New York: Vintage Books, 1992.
Lai Choi San
Lilius, Aleko E. I Sailed with Chinese Pirates. London: Arrowsmith, 1930.
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