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The Secret History of Wonder Woman

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A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origin of Wonder Woman, probably the most world’s most iconic superheroes, hides within it a fascinating circle of relatives story—and a the most important history of twentieth-century feminism

Harvard historian and New Yorker staff author Jill Lepore has uncovered an astonishing trove of documents, including the never-before-seen private papers of William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman’s writer. Beginning in his undergraduate years at Harvard, Marston used to be influenced by early suffragists and feminists, starting with Emmeline Pankhurst, who used to be banned from speaking on campus in 1911, when Marston used to be a freshman. In the 1920s, Marston and his wife, Sadie Elizabeth Holloway, brought into their home Olive Byrne, the niece of Margaret Sanger, one of the influential feminists of the twentieth century. The Marston circle of relatives story is a tale of drama, intrigue, and irony. In the 1930s, Marston and Byrne wrote a regular column for Family Circle celebrating conventional circle of relatives life, whilst they themselves pursued lives of peculiar nonconformity. Marston, internationally referred to as an expert on truth—he invented the lie detector test—lived a life of secrets, only to spill them on the pages of Wonder Woman.

The Secret History of Wonder Woman is a tour de force of intellectual and cultural history. Wonder Woman, Lepore argues, is the missing link in the history of the struggle for women’s rights—a chain of events that begins with the women’s suffrage campaigns of the early 1900s and ends with the troubled place of feminism a century later.
 
This edition includes a new afterword with fresh revelations based on never before seen letters and photographs from the Marston circle of relatives’s papers.

With 161 illustrations and 16 pages in full color

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