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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.
- The True Origin of Wonder Woman
- William Moulton Marston’s Art Imitates Life — and Wife
- The Missing Piece of The Puzzle
- Marston’s Affinity For Submission
- Diana’s Legacy Post-William Moulton Marston
William Moulton Marston, a psychologist by trade, was hired by Maxwell Gaines at the company that was to become DC Comics to help hone their new crop of superheroes and to bring legitimacy to an art form that was often criticized for being vapid and too raunchy. Meanwhile, the books were nonetheless wildly popular. The tensions leading up to WWII p...
To spark inspiration for this superheroine, Marston decided to draw from his real life. Holloway Marston knew a little something about performing outstanding feats as a woman in a time that underestimated her sex. She’d earned a BA in Psychology from Mount Holyoak in 1915 and then turned her sharp mind to law school. She studied at Boston Universit...
While he was teaching at Tufts, Moulton Marston met a young student who happened to be the niece of pioneering feminist activist Margaret Sanger. That student became the third piece of the couple’s polyamorous puzzle when Moulton Marston instantly fell for her, Olive Byrne, who was statuesque and had a penchant for clunky cuff bracelets Soon after,...
Like all writers, Marston wrote himself into his story as well. Namely, in the theme of freedom through bondage. In panel after panel, our heroine finds herself bound, gagged, tied up, and made submissive. “The only hope for peace is to teach people who are full of pep and unbound force to enjoy being bound,” he claimed. “Only when the control of s...
Wonder Woman was more or less an instant phenomenon. She battled Nazis and injustice on the page until she was demoted from her superpowered alias to something of a mod spy girl in the 1960s. Her roots were rediscovered by Ms. Magazinein the 1970s when she graced the cover which read: “Wonder Woman for President.” “Looking back now at these Wonder ...
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4. William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947), also known by the pen name Charles Moulton ( / ˈmoʊltən / ), was an American psychologist who, with his wife Elizabeth Holloway, invented an early prototype of the polygraph. He was also known as a self-help author and comic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman.
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- May 2, 1947 (aged 53), Rye, New York, U.S.
- May 9, 1893, Saugus, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Elizabeth Holloway Marston (m. 1915; his death 1947)
Jun 9, 2017 · Wonder Woman's creator had a few secrets of his own. Historian Jill Lepore describes William Moulton Marstothe's unusual life in The Secret History of Wonder Woman. Originally broadcast Oct. 27, 2014.
Oct 26, 2014 · Jill Lepore's new book about Wonder Woman reveals the unconventional life of her creator, William Moulton Marston, who invented the lie detector, championed feminism, and lived with two women at once.
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 ...
Oct 20, 2017 · Angela Robinson's film tells the love story of William Moulton Marston and the two women who inspired him, using scholarship that found the three were in a polyamorous relationship.
