Olive Byrne Olive Byrne Mary Olive Byrne (), known professionally as Olive Richard (February 19, 1904 – May 19, 1985), was as an American homemaker and polyamorous life partner of William Moulton Marston and Elizabeth Holloway Marston. She was the daughter of famous Progressive activist Ethel Byrne who famously opened the first birth-control clinic in the United States with her sister Margaret Sanger. She has been credited as an inspiration for the comic book character, Wonder Woman. Olive was delivered by her aunt Margret Sanger to the Byrne family in Corning, New York, 1904. Two years later her mother Ethel Byrne would
William Moulton Marston pressure test, which became one component of the modern polygraph invented by John Augustus Larson in Berkeley, California. Marston's wife, Elizabeth Holloway Marston, suggested a connection between emotion and blood pressure to William, observing that, "[w]hen she got mad or excited, her blood pressure seemed to climb". Although Elizabeth is not listed as Marston's collaborator in his early work, Lamb, Matte (1996), and others refer directly and indirectly to Elizabeth's own work on her husband's research. She also appears in a picture taken in his laboratory in the 1920s (reproduced by Marston, 1938). Marston set out to commercialize Larson's invention