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Mary Olive Byrne ( / bɜːrn / ), known professionally as Olive Richard (February 19, 1904 – May 19, 1990), [3] was the polyamorous domestic partner [4] [5] of William Moulton Marston and Elizabeth Holloway Marston. She has been credited as an inspiration for the comic book character Wonder Woman .
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Feb 21, 2014 · The Liberated Wife Who Really Was Wonder Woman. 4 comments. Elizabeth Holloway Marston was one-half of the inspiration for Wonder Woman, the superheroine who first appeared in comic books the month Pearl Harbor was attacked. Olive Byrne made up the other half of Wonder Woman’s inspiration. Both women lived with the Wonder Woman creator ...
Oct 9, 2017 · He and his wife, Elizabeth Holloway Marston, had another woman, Olive Byrne, living with them. After Bill Marston died, Elizabeth and Olive stayed together for the rest of their...
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Oct 27, 2014 · Marston, who was a famous psychologist, made up Wonder Woman in 1941. He was interested in the women's suffrage movement and in Margaret Sanger, the birth control and women's rights activist —...
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- 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.
Sometime in the late 1920s, Olive Byrne, a young woman William had met while teaching at Tufts University, joined the household. Elizabeth Marston had two children, Peter and Olive Ann, while Olive Byrne also gave birth to two of William's children, Byrne and Donn.
Sep 26, 2017 · Olivia Byrne (L) and William Marston (R) The History of the Amazon The backstory of Wonder Woman goes like this: on the island of Themyscira, the Paradise Island (a not-so-subtle version of Marston’s utopia), lived a race of Amazons, separated from the aggressive male society by the Greek gods of myth.