The Trials of Minnie Dean: A Verse Biography

The Trials of Minnie Dean: A Verse Biography
ISBN-10
0994129998
ISBN-13
9780994129994
Category
Women murderers
Pages
210
Language
English
Published
2017-07-23
Publisher
Submarine Books
Author
Karen Zelas

Description

Minnie Dean: the first ¿ and only ¿ woman to be hanged in New Zealand. Baby farmer and child murderer, or hardworking wife and mother, supporting her family by caring for unwanted children in a society that shunned her? Karen Zelas explores the trials of Minnie Dean using a myriad of voices, including Dean¿s own, from her childhood in Scotland to the gallows in Invercargill, 1895.

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