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''The Legend of Anne Bonny'' is a 2020 HistoricalFiction novel by Robert Q. Hoyt that centers around the 18th-century pirate UsefulNotes/AnneBonny and expands upon her life both before and after her disappearance from recorded history.
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* HistoricalRelationshipOverhaul: Anne's life involves several historical men she never recordedly met. She serves Governor Charles Eden as a SexySecretary and gets away with stealing from UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}} after he forces her to serve onboard the ''Queen Anne's Revenge'' as a marksman teacher in male disguise. Most importantly, Robert Maynard is made her ArchEnemy as the executioner of her uncle as well as her AbhorrentAdmirer and [[spoiler:rapist before she kills him during a raid]]. It's also Governor Woodes Rogers who marries Anne and James Bonny, though the latter does work for Rogers like in real life.
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* WidowsWeeds: After Calico Jack is hanged, his mother shows up at Anne and Mary's trial dressed in black.
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* WidowsWeeds: After Calico Jack is hanged, his mother shows up at Anne and Mary's trial while dressed in black.
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* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: Anne's such a wily ActionGirl that she accomplishes a few things her real-life counterpart didn't. After being forced to join Blackbeard's crew as a marksman teacher, she manages to escape with some of his treasure without Blackbeard figuring out her gender, and [[spoiler:she manages to have Robert Maynard killed during his raid on the French ship she's traveling on]].
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* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: Anne's such a wily ActionGirl that she accomplishes a few things her real-life counterpart didn't. After being forced to join Blackbeard's UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}'s crew as a marksman teacher, she manages to escape with some of his treasure without Blackbeard figuring out her gender, and [[spoiler:she manages to have Robert Maynard killed during his raid on the French ship she's traveling on]].
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* DeathFakedForYou: [[spoiler:This is how Anne escapes from the Jamaican prison-fortress. After she [[PlayingPossum fools the guards by using her skill in holding her breath for a long period of time]], Doctor Esteban – whom William Cormac convinced to help Anne and her baby – declares her dead and pretends to take her "corpse" for medical practice and find a caretaker for her baby, allowing them to escape Jamaica.]]
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* DeathFakedForYou: [[spoiler:This is how Anne escapes from the Jamaican prison-fortress. After she [[PlayingPossum fools the guards by using her skill in holding her breath for a long period of time]], Doctor Esteban – whom William Cormac convinced to help Anne and her baby – declares her dead and pretends to take her "corpse" for medical practice and to find a caretaker for her baby, allowing them to escape Jamaica.]]
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: Anne is recorded to have been a FieryRedhead, which most of her fictional portrayals are faithful to. She has black hair in this story, while Mary Read, who's usually depicted as a brunette, is the one with red hair.
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: Anne is recorded to have been a FieryRedhead, which most of her fictional portrayals are faithful to. She has black hair in this story, while Mary Read, who's who is usually depicted as a brunette, is the one with red hair.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Robert Maynard plainly lusts after Anne who absolutely hates his hypocritical personality and act of hanging her uncle.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Robert Maynard plainly lusts after Anne Anne, who absolutely hates both his hypocritical personality and his act of hanging her uncle.
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The story begins in 1717 when young Anne's beloved uncle is hanged by the British Navy. As she assists her father in smuggling while disguising herself as a man, she attempts to make her own fortune in UsefulNotes/TheCaribbean, where the Golden Age of Piracy is nearing its end.
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The story begins in 1717 when young Anne's beloved uncle is hanged by the British Navy. As she assists her father in smuggling while disguising herself as a man, she attempts to make her own fortune in UsefulNotes/TheCaribbean, where the Golden Age of Piracy UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy is nearing its end.
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The story begins in 1717 when young Anne's beloved uncle is hanged by the British Navy. As she assists her father in smuggling while disguising herself as a man, she attempts to make her own fortune in UsefulNotes/TheCaribbean UsefulNotes/TheCaribbean, where the Golden Age of Piracy is nearing its end.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: A rather egregious one for poor Robert Maynard.
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* ScrubbingOffTheTrauma: After Anne [[spoiler:gets rapes by Maynard]] and escapes, she hides in a marsh pond where she vigorously cleans herself up.
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* ScrubbingOffTheTrauma: After Anne [[spoiler:gets rapes raped by Maynard]] and escapes, she hides in a marsh pond where she vigorously cleans herself up.
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* AdaptationalNameChange: Mary Read's fake male name was Mark Read. It's Mardee Read in this story.
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: Anne is recorded to have been a FieryRedhead, which most of her fictional portrayals are faithful to. She has black hair in this story.
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* AdaptationalNameChange: Mary Read's fake male name was Mark Read. It's Mardee Read in this story.
* AdaptationalNameChange: Mary Read's fake male name was Mark Read. It's Mardee Read in this story.
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** [[spoiler:After Anne beats Maynard in a naval battle, she leads the crew of her French vessel to hang him.]]
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* AndThisIsFor: When Anne confronts [[spoiler:Robert Maynard]] for the last time, she attempts to shoot him while saying it's for [[spoiler:hanging Fitz-Riley and raping her]], but she misfires. [[spoiler:When she burns Maynard's man-of-war following his death, she says its for her father Feargus.]]
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** [[spoiler:The real-life Robert Maynard died in his home county of Kent in 1751. In this book, Anne kills him in 1740 when he attacks a French merchantman transporting her across the Atlantic Ocean.]]
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** [[spoiler:The real-life Robert Maynard died in his home county of Kent in 1751. In this book, Anne kills him in 1740 when he attacks a the French merchantman transporting her across the Atlantic Ocean.]]
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* HangingAround:
** The book begins with Anne's uncle Feargus Cormack being hanged for smuggling as Lieutenant Robert Maynard presides over the PublicExecution. The same fate later befalls Toddie Fitz-Riley, a carpenter accused of piracy, though he says he was forced to serve in John Martel's crew.
** Like in real life, Jack Rackham is hanged in 1720 and [[MakeAnExampleOfThem put on display]].
** The book begins with Anne's uncle Feargus Cormack being hanged for smuggling as Lieutenant Robert Maynard presides over the PublicExecution. The same fate later befalls Toddie Fitz-Riley, a carpenter accused of piracy, though he says he was forced to serve in John Martel's crew.
** Like in real life, Jack Rackham is hanged in 1720 and [[MakeAnExampleOfThem put on display]].
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* FictionalizedDeathAccount:
** [[spoiler:The real-life Robert Maynard died in his home county of Kent in 1751. In this book, Anne kills him in 1740 when he attacks a French merchantman transporting her across the Atlantic Ocean.]]
** [[spoiler:Governor Charles Eden died of yellow fever in 1722. His book counterpart is alive to reemploy Anne until the year 1740, after which he ends up becoming her clerk for ten years.]]
** [[spoiler:The real-life Robert Maynard died in his home county of Kent in 1751. In this book, Anne kills him in 1740 when he attacks a French merchantman transporting her across the Atlantic Ocean.]]
** [[spoiler:Governor Charles Eden died of yellow fever in 1722. His book counterpart is alive to reemploy Anne until the year 1740, after which he ends up becoming her clerk for ten years.]]
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Robert Maynard plainly lusts after Anne who absolutely hates his hypocritical personality and act of hanging her uncle.
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* AnimalMotifs: Robert Maynard is likened to an unattractive bully of a dog.
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* AnimalMotifs: The twisted Navy officer Robert Maynard is likened often compared to an unattractive bully a [[BullyBulldog bulldog both in appearance and his personality of a dog.bully]].
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* SexySecretary: Anne works in the beginning of the book as Governor Charles Eden's secretary.
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* SexySecretary: Anne works in the beginning of the book as Governor Charles Eden's secretary. She uses her position to steal some of the merchandise Blackbeard gives Eden and uses Maynard's unwanted interest in her to get info out of him.
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* RapeAndRevenge: [[spoiler:Maynard rapes Anne in Nassau during the year 1718, which gives her one more reason to hate him. When he attacks the ship she's traveling on in 1740, she defeats him and has him hanged as revenge for raping her and other things.]]
* ScrubbingOffTheTrauma: After Anne [[spoiler:gets rapes by Maynard]] and escapes, she hides in a marsh pond where she vigorously cleans herself up.
* SexSlave: A teenaged mulatta called Capn's Chile is sexually used by Blackbeard and his crew onboard the ''Queen Anne's Revenge'' until Anne helps her and her blind little sister Li'l Polly escape.
* ScrubbingOffTheTrauma: After Anne [[spoiler:gets rapes by Maynard]] and escapes, she hides in a marsh pond where she vigorously cleans herself up.
* SexSlave: A teenaged mulatta called Capn's Chile is sexually used by Blackbeard and his crew onboard the ''Queen Anne's Revenge'' until Anne helps her and her blind little sister Li'l Polly escape.
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* MamaDidntRaiseNoCriminal: Calico Jack's mother blames Anne of ruining her son and getting him hanged, refusing to believe he wasn't a proud sea captain loyal to England.
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* MamaDidntRaiseNoCriminal: Calico Jack's mother blames is present at her son's trial, but after he's hanged for piracy, she shows up at Anne and Mary's trial where she accuses Anne of ruining her son and getting him hanged, refusing whom she refuses to believe he wasn't a proud sea captain loyal to England.England. Anne only notes that maybe all mothers are blind to their sons' flaws.
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* MamaDidntRaiseNoCriminal: Calico Jack's mother blames Anne of ruining her son and getting him hanged, refusing to believe he wasn't a proud sea captain loyal to England.
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* WidowsWeeds: After Calico Jack is hanged, his mother shows up at Anne and Mary's trial dressed in black.
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* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: Anne's such a wily ActionGirl that she accomplishes a few things her real-life counterpart didn't. After being forced to join Blackbeard's crew as a marksman teacher, she manages to escape with some of his treasure without Blackbeard figuring out her gender, and [[spoiler:she manages to have Robert Maynard killed during his raid on the French ship she's traveling on]].
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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:Maynard gets away with hanging Feargus Cormack,
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* AnimalMotifs: Robert Maynard is likened to an unattractive bully of a dog.
* ArchEnemy: Anne holds nothing but contempt towards Lieutenant Robert Maynard who hangs her beloved uncle, lusts after her to the point of [[spoiler:raping her]], and threatens to take away her spoils. She cannot really retaliate against him in any meaningful way whenever he shows up during her life [[spoiler:until she manages to kill him in 1740]].
* ArchEnemy: Anne holds nothing but contempt towards Lieutenant Robert Maynard who hangs her beloved uncle, lusts after her to the point of [[spoiler:raping her]], and threatens to take away her spoils. She cannot really retaliate against him in any meaningful way whenever he shows up during her life [[spoiler:until she manages to kill him in 1740]].
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:Maynard gets away with hanging Feargus Cormack,
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* TheMole: [[spoiler:When Calico Jack is judged in Jamaica, Fenwick is revealed to have been a Navy spy all along.]]
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* TheMole: [[spoiler:When Calico Jack is judged in Jamaica, Fenwick is revealed to have been a Navy spy all along.]]
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* TeenyWeenie: [[spoiler:When Maynard rapes Anne, his equipment is revealed to be no longer than a finger.]]
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* YouKilledMyFather: Anne holds a personal hatred of Robert Maynard and the British Navy for hanging her beloved uncle Feargus. [[spoiler:It turns into a more literal case after Feargus is revealed to have been her father, and Anne ultimately manages to avenge him by killing Maynard.]]
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* ArcWords: The last words Anne's uncle tells her before his hanging pop up several times during the book:
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* DeadGuyJunior: [[spoiler:Anne names her son Feargus Rackham to honor both his father and grand-uncle (who later is revealed to have been his grandfather).]]
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* HourglassPlot: [[spoiler:Anne works in the beginning of the book as the secretary of the corrupt governor Charles Eden. The epilogue mentions that after she gains a position in insurance business, Ex-Governor Eden becomes her clerk who makes tea and runs errands like she did for him.]]
* PirateParrot:
** Two of Calico Jack's crewmembers aboard the ''Burningham'', First Mate Fenwick and Quartermaster Dobbins, both have a parrot.
** Mary Read owns a pet monkey.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler:Anne gives birth to Calico Jack's son following his hanging.]]
* VenturousSmuggler: Our spirited protagonist Anne is already making a profit out of smuggling before she even joins Jack Rackham's crew.
* PirateParrot:
** Two of Calico Jack's crewmembers aboard the ''Burningham'', First Mate Fenwick and Quartermaster Dobbins, both have a parrot.
** Mary Read owns a pet monkey.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler:Anne gives birth to Calico Jack's son following his hanging.]]
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: Anne is recorded to have been a FieryRedhead, which most of her fictional portrayals are faithful to. She has black hair in this story.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Calico Jack is blonde, Anne is brunette, and Mary Read is redheaded.
* DeathbedConfession: [[spoiler:Anne's father]] makes one to Anne near the end; [[spoiler:he's actually her uncle, and his brother Feargus was her real father]].
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: [[spoiler:William Cormack reveals in his deathbed that Anne was born out of wedlock to William's clergyman brother Feargus Cormack and his housekeeper Molly Cahill. Feargus didn't want his daughter's life to be marred by the circumstances of her birth, so he pretended to be her uncle all the rest of his life while William – who had fathered with Molly a boy who'd died without anyone's knowledge – took her in as his daughter.]]
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Calico Jack is blonde, Anne is brunette, and Mary Read is redheaded.
* DeathbedConfession: [[spoiler:Anne's father]] makes one to Anne near the end; [[spoiler:he's actually her uncle, and his brother Feargus was her real father]].
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: [[spoiler:William Cormack reveals in his deathbed that Anne was born out of wedlock to William's clergyman brother Feargus Cormack and his housekeeper Molly Cahill. Feargus didn't want his daughter's life to be marred by the circumstances of her birth, so he pretended to be her uncle all the rest of his life while William – who had fathered with Molly a boy who'd died without anyone's knowledge – took her in as his daughter.]]
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''The Legend of Anne Bonny'' is a 2020 HistoricalFiction novel by Robert Q. Hoyt that centers around the 18th-century pirate UsefulNotes/AnneBonny and expands upon her life both before and after her disappearance from recorded history.
The story begins in 1717 when young Anne's beloved uncle is hanged by the British Navy. As she assists her father in smuggling while disguising herself as a man, she attempts to make her own fortune in the Caribbean where the Golden Age of Piracy is nearing its end.
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: Anne
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''The Legend of Anne Bonny'' is a 2020 HistoricalFiction novel by Robert Q. Hoyt that centers around the 18th-century pirate UsefulNotes/AnneBonny and expands upon her life both before and after her disappearance from recorded history.
The story begins in 1717 when young Anne's beloved uncle is hanged by the British Navy. As she assists her father in smuggling while disguising herself as a man, she attempts to make her own fortune in the Caribbean where the Golden Age of Piracy is nearing its end.
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: Anne
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