Girl's Life: Was this the first ladette?; Colin Wills meets Jim Petrie (left) the creator of Minnie The Minx - the original champion of girl power.(Features)

From: Sunday Mirror (London, England) | Date: May 13, 2001 | Copyright information

Byline: Colin Wills

The very least you expect is a statue. By rights she should be up there on a plinth in her hooped jumper, right arm raised, about to pelt some unsuspecting passer-by with a piece of rotten fruit.

But Dundee has snubbed her. All you see are monuments to serious-looking worthies with frowns on their faces. Of Minnie The Minx, pioneer and social trail-blazer, there is no sign. An inexcusable oversight, if you ask me.

Minnie, who was first given life in this Scottish city in the pages of the Beano, which is published here, deserves a special place in ...

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