Miss May tells a marvellous true tale of the circus

By Karen Hardy
Updated April 24 2018 - 10:46pm, first published February 19 2018 - 2:32pm

May Zinga was just seven years old in 1901 when her mother gave her away to Wirth Brothers Circus. Torn from her family, little May had big dreams, to become the greatest equestrienne in the world, performing astounding tricks on the back of a galloping horse. The little girl from Bundaberg, Queensland, went on to perform for the British Royal Family and American President Woodrow Wilson, becoming a favourite of the suffragette movement in the early 1900s.

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