Pirate Women, adapted by Frank R. Stockton, is improbable, because a sailor woman named Mary Read was asked to join a band of pirates - and managed to survive.
Mary Read grew up crossdressing (due to an event early in her childhood concerning her grandmother’s will) and so it is no surprise that she ended up picking very “manly” careers - soldier, cavalrywoman (where she met her first husband), tavern-keeper, sailor (where she met her second husband), and pirate. Mary was captured and imprisoned in England, where she died of a fever in 1721.
The story of Mary Read is improbable in that “the ship Mary was on was taken by English pirates, and since she was English and looked as if she would make a good freebooter, they compelled her to join
Mary Read grew up crossdressing (due to an event early in her childhood concerning her grandmother’s will) and so it is no surprise that she ended up picking very “manly” careers - soldier, cavalrywoman (where she met her first husband), tavern-keeper, sailor (where she met her second husband), and pirate. Mary was captured and imprisoned in England, where she died of a fever in 1721.
The story of Mary Read is improbable in that “the ship Mary was on was taken by English pirates, and since she was English and looked as if she would make a good freebooter, they compelled her to join