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The many deaths of Mary Dobie : murder, politics and revenge in nineteenth-century New Zealand /

"'Dreadful murder at Opunake,' said the Taranaki Herald, 'Shocking outrage', the Evening Post in Wellington when they learned in November 1880 that a young woman called Mary Dobie had been found lying under a flax bush near Ōpunake on the Taranaki coast with her throat cut s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hastings, David, 1952- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Dobie, Mary, > 1851-1880 > Death and burial.
Murder > New Zealand > Taranaki.
Artists > New Zealand > Biography.
Taranaki (N.Z.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Taranaki (N.Z.) > Social conditions > 19th century.

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