Olive "Dotsie" Richard (Byrne)

Olive Byrne lived a polygamous lifestyle with Elizabeth Holloway Marston and her husband William Moulton Marston, creator of Wonder Woman. She was never married but had two sons with Marston, Byrne and Donn, who were adopted by William and Elizabeth.

Source: Wikipedia

Olive "Dotsie" Byrne Richard (1904-1990, aged 86) was an American housewife and domestic partner of William Moulton Marston and Elizabeth Holloway Marston; she has been credited as an inspiration for his creation Wonder Woman.

Two sons, Byrne Marston and Donald Richard Marston. (1931-1997)

She was never legally married to William Marston, she lived with him and Elizabeth till all three were divided by death.

During the years when she lived with Marston and Holloway, she wore, instead of a wedding ring, a pair of bracelets. Wonder Woman wears those same cuffs. Byrne died in 1990, at the age of 86. She and Holloway had been living together in an apartment in Tampa. While Byrne was in the hospital, dying, Holloway fell and broke her hip; she was admitted to the same hospital. They were in separate rooms. They’d lived together for 64 years. When Holloway, in her hospital bed, was told that Byrne had died, she sang a poem by Tennyson: “Sunset and the evening star, / And one clear call for me! / And may there be no moaning of the bar, / When I put out to sea.” No newspaper ran an obituary.

Olive Byrne was the daughter of Jack and Ethel (Higgins) Byrne, who famously opened the first birth-control clinic in the United States with her sister Margaret Sanger.

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