The trials of Minnie Dean
Subtitle: a verse biography
By: Karen Zelas
Publisher: Mākaro Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Eastbourne [Wellington, New Zealand]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780994129994
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Poetry; Women murderers
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"--Http://makaropress.co.nz.
Notes: Poems.

Includes bibliographical references.