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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