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A riveting work of historical diagnosis disclosing that the roots of one of the world's most iconic superheroes hides within it a remarkable family account - and a crucial history of 20th-century feminism. Wonder Girl, created in 1941, is the most popular female superhero ever. Aside from Superman and Batman, no superhero has lasted for as long or commanded so vast and wildly passionate a pursuing. Like every other superhero, Wonder Girl has a secret identity. Unlike every other superhero, she's also has a secret history. Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has uncovered an amazing trove of documents, like the never-before-seen private papers of William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman's creator. Beginning in his undergraduate years at Harvard, Marston was influenced by early on suffragists and feminists, starting with Emmeline Pankhurst, who was simply forbidden from speaking on campus in 1911, when Marston was a freshman. Within the 1920s, Marston and his better half, Sadie Elizabeth Holloway, helped bring into their home Olive Byrne, the niece of Margaret Sanger, one of the most influential feminists of the 20th century. The Marston family account is an account of theatre, intrigue, and irony. Within the 1930s, Marston and Byrne published a regular column for Family Circle celebrating typical family life, even as they themselves pursued lives of astonishing nonconformity. Marston, internationally known as an expert on fact - he invented the lie detector test - lived a life of secrets, and then spill them on the pages of Wonder Woman. The Secret History of Wonder Girl is a tour de drive of intellectual and cultural history. Wonder Girl, Lepore argues, is the missing link in the history of the struggle for women's protection under the law - a chain of events that commences with the women's suffrage promotions of the early 1900s and ends with the stressed place of feminism a hundred years later.
