In this article, we look at the lives and deeds of seven notorious women pirates. There is Teuta, the Balkan enemy of ancient Rome; Alwilda, the Scandinavian princess who chose a life of crime on the High Seas; Maria Lindsey, who terrorized the northern Atlantic; the Irish pirate and folk hero Grace O'Malley; the widow Zheng Yi Sao, who led a huge Chinese pirate fleet; and two figures from the Golden Age of Piracy (1690-1720) in the Caribbean: Anne Bonny and Mary Read.
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