Ethel byrne biography
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Ethel byrne biography
Ethel Byrne
Ethel Higgins Byrne (1883-1955) was an American Progressive Eraradical feminist. She was the younger sister of birth control activist Margaret Sanger, and assisted her in this work.
Background
[change | change source]Michael Hennessey Higgins and Anne Higgins had a family with eleven children.[1] They had an Irish American background. Ethel and Margaret were two of the children.
Her mother preferred Ethel.
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Margaret did not like this, and it caused problems in their relationship..[2]
Ethel had a short and unhappy marriage to Jack Byrne, a glassworker.[3] They had two children, Jack and Olive.
In 1906, Ethel left her children in the care of their paternal grandparents to protect them from their abusive father;[4] Ethel only visited her daughter once in sixteen years. Olive grew up to become an important muse to the creator of Wonder Woman, William Moulton Marston, and more details of Ethel Byrne's life came to light when