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Oct 27, 2014 · Wonder Woman's creator, William Moulton Marston, had a secret life: He had a wife and a mistress and fathered children with both of them. Jill Lepore explains in The Secret History of Wonder Woman.
Oct 9, 2017 · The Marstons legally adopted both of Olive's children, but that was only a legality. She was an equal partner, fully a parental authority to all their children. Bill, Betty, and Dotsie did indeed ...
- Wonder Woman was created by the man who invented the lie detector. Dr William Moulton Marston was an internationally famous psychologist, generally credited as the inventor of the polygraph test, which measures changes in blood pressure to determine whether someone is lying.
- Wonder Woman was based on his wife – and his live-in mistress. William Marston (Luke Evans), with his wife Elizabeth (Rebecca Hall, left) and mistress Olive Byrne (Bella Heathcote, right) from Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017) | Image © Claire Folger/Annapurna Pictures.
- Wonder Woman is psychologically designed to be the perfect woman. Gal Gadot (left) and Lynda Carter (right) have played Marston's iconic superhero on the big and small screens | Image courtesy of Warner Bros.
- Wonder Woman's adventures were influenced by the Marstons' sex lives. Angela Robinson's 2017 biopic portrays the Marstons and Olivia Byrne (pictured) as having an interest in BDSM, influences of which were picked up on in the early Wonder Woman comics | Image © Claire Folger/Annapurna Pictures.
Sep 7, 2017 · Personal papers of William Moulton Marston, her complex creator, land at Schlesinger. He created the most famous female superhero in history, empowering her to triumph in a male-dominated world, yet he lived together with a wife and a mistress, fathered children with both, and was eager to keep the complex relationship secret.
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Elizabeth Holloway was born on Feb. 20, 1893 on the Isle of Man, but raised in Boston, Mass. She showed early in life why she would inspire a powerful, liberated, modern super-heroine. At a time when few women earned academic degrees, she earned three. She played a key role in her husband’s development of the systolic blood pressure test, a forerun...
After she earned her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College, she decided to go to law school. But her father refused to pay tuition, saying ‘As long as I have money to keep you in aprons, you can stay home with your mother.’ So she sold cookbooks to raise the $100 tuition for Boston University School of Law, where she obtained an LL.B. During law school s...
Bill Marston taught first at American, then at Tufts University, where he met his student Olive Byrne. She came to live with him and Elizabeth, taking the name ‘Richard’ instead of ‘Byrne.’ Sheldon Mayer, Marston’s editor at DC Comics, visited them at their home years later. “Betty Marston was the mother, Dotsie Richard was the secretary, there wer...
Though Wonder Woman was liberated and super-competent like Elizabeth, she was physically modeled after Olive Byrne – thin, black-haired and blue-eyed. Olive also wore heavy silver bracelets that inspired Wonder Woman’s bullet-deflecting cuffs. Wonder Woman first appeared in All Star Comics #8 in December 1941. An Amazon princess, she fought for jus...
Jul 10, 2015 · One of her kids is always lying, and she doesn't know what to do. And so she goes to see the famous psychologist William Moulton Marston, and she goes to his house. She takes the train to his house.
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Oct 16, 2017 · Daniels acknowledged that Marston had children with both Elizabeth and Olive, but did not discuss Elizabeth and Olive’s relationship. That elision has continued, to some extent, to the present day.
