
When Harvard psychologist Dr. William Moulton Marston's created feminist superhero Wonder Woman in the 1940s, he was criticized by censors for her "sexual perversity," and he was keeping a secret that could have destroyed him. Marston's muses for the Wonder Woman character were his wife Elizabeth Marston and their lover Olive Byrne, two empowered women who defied convention: working with Marston on human behavior research while building a hidden life with him that rivaled the greatest of superhero disguises.
