Description In the mid-1840s, a best-selling novel, ‘Fanny Campbell, The Female Pirate Captain: A Tale of The Revolution’ written by Maturin Murray Ballou took the country by storm. It sold more than 75,000 copies for a quarter each and marked the first time that a book centered on a literary heroine who took charge of her own life. Fanny Campbell inspired many girls of the Nineteenth Century including Michigan’s own Sarah Emma Edmonds who, at the onset of the Civil War, disguised herself as a man and joined the Union Army. Likewise, Maud Buckley, the widow of a sea captain, was also stirred enough to get her own captain’s license and sail the Great Lakes in the 1870s on her very own schooner, which she christened ‘The Fanny Campbell’. Now it’s time for a new generation to be inspired by Fanny’s bravado and daring. In the second book they have coauthored, Debra Ann Pawlak and Cheryl Bartlam Du Bois have once again brought to life a heroine for the ages, retelling her story for the modern reader.
