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"For years, I've considered it an established fact that the female body is a pain in the ass."

Family recollections of granddaughter, Kaelyn

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.