This is a good collection of stories, but the author is not a historian and it shows. It's full of the author's bias, and she interprets the word "pirate" extremely loosely. Basically, any woman who was on a boat and ran askance of the law was included. Some of the women are completely fictional. (Granted, she points this out, but then they shouldn't be in a book with real women.)

If you are curious about stories about people, it's a good collection. It's not a good historical reference in anyway.