Analyzing Anne Bonny's Timeline

Sunday, March 22, 2026 - 08:00 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Even more than Mary Read's "origin story," the backstory given for Anne Bonny's birth is complicated, farcical, and implausible. Similarly to Read, she is given an excuse for later cross-dressing in having been disguised as a boy at an early age. (This motif shows up in other cross-dressing biographies and is a way of absolving the w...