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.