![]() ![]() In The Unbinding of Mary Reade (the “e” added to her name in the style of the era), debut YA novelist Miriam McNamara imagines the romantic and sexual relationship that developed between Mary Read and Anne Bonny in the years they sailed together.Īlthough both of them at times passed for men during their youth and their years as pirates, McNamara focuses on Mary with a dual timeline that explores her capture by a pirate ship and relationship with Anne, along with her childhood in Wapping, London, where her impoverished, alcoholic mother dressed her in the clothes of her deceased half-brother, Mark, knowing that “Mark” would have many more opportunities in life. Among those pirates were a several notable women who sought freedom and riches on the high seas. The end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth were the golden age of pirates-that is, the buccaneers of the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea whose exploits have captivated the imaginations of readers young and old. ![]()
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