Mary Read & Ann Bonny
Content : It is because Mary Read has lost everything that one day she boards this boat on the coast of England. She no longer knows who she is or where she is going. But she acquires a new sense of freedom, as she hears the stories of a plunderer of the seas, an heartbreaker... A certain Ann Bonny.
Suddenly trapped aboard the Revenge, a wider world opens up to her.
Did you know that pirate laws punished rape, allowed same-sex marriages and accepted women into professions that were forbidden at the time? In this more inclusive and less bloodthirsty version of piracy, Lou Dvina draws on a true facet of history, which she associates with her ‘pirate dream’. Mary Read and Ann Bonny become the heroines of an original story.
About the author-illustrator:
Lou Dvina is an illustrator, author and expert on feminist and LGBTQI+ struggles. She graduated in Arts and Philosophy, and she co-signed her first illustrated book, Kamasutra Queer (Hachette, 2023), with Léontin Lacombe.
With Mary Read and Ann Bonny, she deploys her talent as a graphic novelist and pursues her commitment to celebrating all human bodies by reappropriating history in a queer version, through the figures of these forgotten women pirates. She manages the insta accounts @les.sapphos 63k followers and @lou.dvina 12k followers.
