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The Trials of Minnie Dean : a verse biography

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.

Author

Karen Zelas

Karen Zelas lives in quake-struck Christchurch. A former psychiatrist and psychotherapist, she returned to university, taking creative writing papers at Canterbury University in preparation for giving up her day job.

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New Zealand
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Review The Trials of Minnie Dean : a verse biography, Karen Zelas
Karen Chisholm
 Thursday, July 12, 2018
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Karen Chisholm
 Friday, March 2, 2018
ISBN
9780994129994
Year of Publication
2017
Publisher
Makaro Press
Genre
Crime Fiction
Poetry
Review The Trials of Minnie Dean : a verse biography, Karen Zelas
Karen Chisholm
 Thursday, July 12, 2018
Blog #amreading The Trials of Minnie Dean : a verse biography, Karen Zelas
Karen Chisholm
 Friday, March 2, 2018

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