Fanny Campbell The Female Pirate Captain

Fanny Campbell the Female Pirate Captain: A Tale of the Revolution is an 1844 American novel by Maturin Murray Ballou about a woman who goes to sea to rescue her fiancé and becomes commander of a pirate ship. The popularity of its heroine continued long after the book was published with some writers publishing accounts of Fanny Campbell as if she were real. Fanny Campbell the protagonist is a young woman who lives in Lynn Massachusetts in the 1770s. She has a childhood sweetheart named William Lovell who becomes a sailor. After his first voyage Lovell asks Campbell to marry him. She says yes and will marry Lovell when he returns from his second voyage.