Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lapore

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Published Jan. 6, 2014 by Alfred A. Knopf.

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Not a review, more of a summary of my frustration: It's hard to read the last page without concluding that Lepore thinks that Olive Byrne and Elizabeth Holloway were also lovers, but she never voices her speculation, probably because she couldn't find any love letters. (Of course, a few pages earlier, she recounts Margaret Sanger, Byrne's aunt, winnowing her papers before donating them, and why very few of Byrne's mother's papers survived -- the argument is right here, just never made. As for interviews with the family, at one point she includes one of the children's assertion that Marston never practiced bondage with his wives, which -- how would the son possibly know that?) A story this queer needs a queer historian who is better able to grapple with the epistemology of lives like this.

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