She enrolled in the graduate program in psychology at Columbia University and continued to be Marston’s assistant while living with him and Holloway.Ĭhapter 17 details Marston’s time in Hollywood, working for Universal Studios in 1929. Chapters 14-16 cover how Olive Byrne met William Marston at Tufts University (where she was a student and he a professor of psychology), explaining that she became his research assistant and, eventually, lover. The first four chapters of the section go into some depth about the former by describing the lives of Sanger, Byrne, and Byrne’s daughter Olive.

In addition, she explores the birth control movement, started by Margaret Sanger and her sister Ethel Byrne, and its connection to the Marstons. In the second section, titled “Family Circle,” the author details the Marstons’ careers and unconventional family life from the late 1920s to the 1940s. While teaching at American University, he becomes involved in a murder trial, attempting unsuccessfully to introduce his lie-detecting methods and their results as evidence in court.

In Chapters 8 and 9, Lepore delves into Marston’s work applying lie detection to the field of law. The next chapter describes the Marstons’ graduate work in psychology after the war. Chapters 5 and 6 discuss the early years of their marriage: their law school years (he at Harvard, she at Boston University) and Marston’s work during World War I. The early chapters describe their respective childhoods and education as well as their exposure to the women’s rights movement while in college. The first section, called “Veritas,” includes nine chapters that introduce William Marston and his wife, Elizabeth Holloway.

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