Caribbean pirate Anne Bonney (1702-1782) and her lover Mary Read were captured while defending their ship, while pregnant. In the gallows Bonney said to the ship’s captain “Calico Jack” Rackham: she was “sorry to see him there, but if he had fought like a Man, he need not have been hang’d like a Dog.” She escaped execution due to pregnancy, then settled into married family life like nothing had ever happened. Little is know of her appearance, so this is an imagined portrait.
Ciana Pullen 2012