Elizabeth Holloway Marston

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Elizabeth Holloway Marston in 1918.

Elizabeth "Sadie" Holloway Marston (born February 20, 1893 on the Isle of Man , † March 27, 1993 in New York City ) was an American psychologist. Holloway Marston was best known as an early American feminist, as a co-developer of the criminological test method known as the "systolic blood pressure test" and as co-creator of the comic hero Wonder Woman , who she created with her husband William Moulton Marston .

Life and work

Holloway Marston was born Elizabeth Holloway on the British Isle of Man in 1893. She spent most of her childhood in Boston , in the US state of Massachusetts. In 1915 she earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Mount Holyoke College.

After she was denied access to the Harvard School of Law due to the study guidelines of Harvard University - which at that time still expressly excluded the admission of women - Holloway studied law at the Boston University School of Law, which she was one of only in 1918 three women graduating from their senior year with the LLB.

While her husband, William Moulton Marston, whom she married in 1918, was doing research as a doctoral student at Harvard University's psychology department, Holloway Marston completed a master's program at neighboring Radcliffe College . Together with her husband, she developed the systolic blood pressure test, which he made the subject of his doctoral thesis. The procedure later became a tool in police investigation technology, which it uses to draw conclusions about the credibility of their statements based on abnormalities in the detected blood pressure of the accused or witnesses in interrogation situations and to identify any lies or false statements. Marston followed up on this method later with the lie detector he developed. Holloway Marston's contribution to this innovation was honored with a master’s degree from Radcliffe College in 1921.

In later years, Holloway Marston lectured on law, ethics, and psychology at American University and New York University, and was the editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica and McCall's magazine for the US Congress. In addition, she made the index of the documents of the first fourteen congress periods and she worked from 1933 for the Metropolitan Life Insurance.

Family and personal life

Holloway Marston's marriage to Marston resulted in two children, Pete and Olive Ann. After their marriage of two was later expanded to a marriage of three, there were two more children who were brought into the marriage by their co-wife Olive Byrne, Byrne Byrne and Donn Byrne, who Holloway Marston and her husband later legally adopted. The internal division of labor was such that Marston and Holloway Marston financed the living of the family of seven while Byrne looked after the children and ran the household. Even after Marston's death, the two women continued to live together and raised their four children. Even after the children were out of the house, the two women lived in one household.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ What 'Professor Marston' Misses About Wonder Woman's Origins (Guest Column) The Hollywood Reporter, October 20, 2017, accessed July 29, 2018