The pirate's wife : the remarkable true story of Sarah Kidd

Summary: In work of narrative nonfiction filled with romance and high seas adventure, a historian and journalist charts the life of Sarah Kidd, who secretly aided and abetted her infamous husband, pirate Captain Kidd, from within the strictures of polite society in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New York.

Record details

ISBN: 9781335429841
ISBN: 1335429840
Physical Description: print
288 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2022]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-276) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue -- Sarah's new world -- William Cox and the she-merchant - Mayhem and tragedy -- Debts and bills -- Dead men tell no tales -- The golden age of piracy -- Fletcher's friends -- London -- Provisioning in New York -- Waiting -- Emott's secret -- Taking precautions -- Safe haven on Block Island -- Reunited -- Accomplice -- Buried treasure -- Confronting Bellomont -- Kidd's narrative -- Bellomont's secret -- Imprisoned -- The pirate's wife -- The king's ship -- Newgate -- Kidd's good deed -- Trial -- Tragic news -- New beginnings -- Full circle.