Elizabeth Holloway Marston

Elizabeth " Sadie" Holloway Marston ( born February 20, 1893 the Isle of Man, † 27 March 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 procedure of the so-called " systolic blood pressure tests " and as co-creator of the comic book heroine Wonder Woman, which she created together with her husband William Moulton Marston.

Life and work

Holloway Marston was born in 1893 Man as Elizabeth Holloway on the British Isle of Man. She spent her childhood mostly in Boston, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. In 1915 she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at Mount Holyoke College.

After their access to the Harvard School of Law due to the study guidelines of the Harvard University - which still explicitly precluded the admission of women at the time - was denied, Holloway studied law at the Boston University School of Law, which they in 1918, as one of only three women in her graduating class, with the LLB left.

While her husband William Moulton Marston, whom she married in 1918, research as a doctoral student at the Faculty of Psychology Harvard University, Holloway Marston took part in a master program of the neighboring Radcliff College. Together with her husband she developed her systolic blood pressure test he made ​​the subject of his doctoral thesis. This method later became a tool in the police investigation technique that uses them to make reference to abnormalities of the detected blood pressure of defendants or witnesses in interrogation situations inferences about the credibility of their statements and to detect any lies / false statements. Marston followed up on this method later developed by him with the lie detector. Holloway Marston's contribution to this innovation was awarded a Master's degree of Radcliffe College in 1921.

In later years, Holloway Marston lectured on law, ethics and psychology at the American University and New York University and worked as Editorin to the Encyclopædia Britannica and the McCall's magazine of the U.S. Congress with. In addition, they made ​​the index of the documents of the first fourteen congress periods and worked from 1933 for the Metropolitan Life Insurance.

Family and private life

From Holloway Marston Marston marriage with two children, Pete and Olive Ann went out. After their nuclear marriage was later expanded to a three marriage were added to two more children, the. Their co- wife Olive Byrne brought into the marriage Children Byrne Byrne and Donn Byrne, the adopted Martson Holloway and her husband later legal The before internal division of labor designed so that Marston and Holloway Marston the livelihood of the family of seven funded Byrne during the care of children and looked after the management of the household.

  • Psychologist
  • Comic author
  • Americans
  • Born in 1893
  • Died in 1993
  • Woman
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