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Sarah Elizabeth Marston (née Holloway; February 20, 1893 – March 27, 1993) [1] was an American attorney and psychologist. She is credited, with her husband William Moulton Marston, with the development of the systolic blood pressure measurement used to detect deception; the predecessor to the polygraph. [2] [3]
Olive Byrne met Marston in 1925, when she was a senior at Tufts; he was her psychology professor. Marston was already married, to a lawyer named Elizabeth Holloway.
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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...
Oct 9, 2017 · William Moulton Marston (1893-1947) was both a psychologist and a lawyer, as was his wife Elizabeth. He is often called (incorrectly but with good reason) the inventor of the lie detector.
Jul 10, 2015 · This is Sadie Elizabeth Holloway, who becomes Betty Marston. And she was quite an interesting and ambitious woman, a really career-oriented woman of that generation of - you know, one of the...
Dec 29, 2022 · She first came to the U.S. in 1941, the brainchild of a polygamist psychologist, his wife…and his other wife. Dr. William Moulton Marston claimed to have invented the lie detector test, which...
Sep 15, 2014 · Marston finished his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1921, after a stint of service during the First World War. His research had to do with emotions.
