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Female Pirate Costumes – Anne Bonny Is Your Inspiration As A Female Pirate
The Golden age of piracy was thought to begin around 1650 through to 1720. It burgeoned because of the lack of authority on the high seas at the time. As soon as the Royal Navy and other European fleets started to make their presence felt, primarily in the Atlantic ocean but also the Mediterranean and Indian oceans, many pirates soon either sort a new gig or felt the bite of the hempen halter (and more besides).
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This period has gone through all manner of revisions thanks to books like Treasure Island, movies like the Pirates Of The Caribbean and even kids shows like Captain Pugwash. The prevailing image of these Pirates now is of a band of rascals engaged in swashbuckling adventures that usually ended pleasantly in an Inn or a beer or rum punch. The sanitized version in fact.
In reality, most pirates were criminals and thieves that would be sentenced to a slow and painful death if ever captured. And some of the legendary pirate captains were bloodthirsty, violent psychopaths.
Hey, but why let the truth ruin a good story and anyway, you’re looking for a pirate wench costume so what does all this reality have to do with dressing up like a pirate ? Well I did a little research when looking at pirate costumes and I was quite surprised to find that there were female pirates. Not many, but some were extremely successful. And others had stories of their own well worth telling. Maybe you can use their tales to inspire you in your next fancy dress party or Halloween event.
And one of the most documented female pirates was Anne Bonny. Her story is told in the book “A General History of the Pyrates” written by someone called Captain Charles Johnson.
It relates that Anne was born in County Cork in Ireland. It recounts how her family effectively emigrated to the new world and South Carolina, because of some indiscretions by her father. Her father thrived in the new world and made a fortune in tobacco.
Thus Anne was raised in a fairly privileged existence. But as she grew into womanhood, she got involved with the wrong crowd (a timeless story). She ended up marrying a low level criminal and aspiring pirate (one and the same thing in fact). And although the details are extremely sketchy, they managed to burn her father’s plantation home down. Whoops.
They left South Carolina under a rather heavy cloud and ended up in the Caribbean. They found a new home on the Bahamas, that was the center of the pirate world at the time. This afforded Anne plenty of chances to mix the the pirate in the Inns and pubs. It was also during these days that husband and wife drifted away from each other. She fell in with a man known as John “Calico Jack” Rackham (great name!) who was a known pirate and had a sloop.
The new couple left on the sloop and Anne Bonny became a full blown pirate (probably not a wench though as she seemed to be pretty strong willed).
Anne lived as a man when on board the ship. She was incognito most of the time, attired in male clothing. Only Rackham, who was captain, and another female pirate, knew her real identity.
Rackham’s band of scurvy seadogs performed many acts of piracy, generally on Spanish galleons, laden with gold and other precious items from the colonies. It is written that Anne more than held her own during their missions. However the sloop was eventually engaged by a Royal Navy vessel and the pirates were arrested.
Rackham and many of the other pirates were hanged but Anne Bonny pleaded her belly. She said that she was pregnant which effectively commuted her sentence to life in prison. With that said, no more details exist of her. Various claims say that she died in prison whilst other claim she escaped and went back to live in South Carolina. Whatever really happened, her tale might serve as inspiration for your next pirate wench costume party.
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