In 1937, William Moulton Marston, Harvard-trained psychologist, inventor of the lie detector test, and soon-to-be creator of Wonder Woman (first appearing in 1941), earned himself headlines when he declared that women would one day rule the world. In her extraordinary biography of Marston's female alter ego, The Secret History of Wonder Woman, Harvard historian and …
WHAT IS LOST: JANE FRANKLIN AND THE GREAT MAN SYNDROME: My October Column at Bookslut
"I know the most Insignificant creature on Earth may be made some Use of in the Scale of Beings, may Touch some Spring, or Verge to some wheel unpercived by us." --Jane Franklin, In a Letter to her Brother, 1786 "One Half of the World does not know how the other Half lives." --Benjamin Franklin, …
Jenny McPhee 