The Trials of Minnie Dean

A Verse Biography

• Author(s): Karen Zelas,
• Publisher: Submarine
• Pages: 196
• ISBN_10: 0994129998
  ISBN_13: 9780994129994
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Women ,

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.