Editing Marianne Faithfull (section)

==Early life==

=== Ancestry ===
Faithfull was born at the old Queen Mary's Maternity House in [[Hampstead]], London.{{cn|date=February 2025}} Her father, Major Robert Glynn Faithfull, was a [[British intelligence agencies|British intelligence]] officer and professor of Italian literature at [[Bedford College, London|Bedford College]], London University. Her mother, Eva, was the daughter of Artur Wolfgang [[Ritter]] von Sacher-Masoch (1875–1953), an [[Austrian nobility|Austro-Hungarian nobleman]] of old [[Polonized]] Catholic [[Ruthenians|Ruthenian]] nobility. Eva was born in Budapest and moved to Vienna in 1918; she chose to [[Courtesy style|style]] herself as [[Eva von Sacher-Masoch|Eva von Sacher-Masoch, Baroness Erisso]]  in adulthood.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/episode/marianne-faithfull|title=Marianne Faithfull|work=Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine|access-date=17 July 2016|quote=... (Faithfull's mother) told her "wonderful stories about castles and parties and balls" and styled herself as a baroness...Eva's claiming of a title was exaggerated but rooted in reality...|archive-date=22 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422042002/https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/episode/marianne-faithfull/|url-status=live}}</ref> She had been a ballerina for the [[Max Reinhardt]] Company during her early years, and danced in productions of works by the German theatrical duo [[Bertolt Brecht]] and [[Kurt Weill]].<ref name="Faithfull, Marianne 2007">Faithfull, Marianne. ''Memories, Dreams and Reflections'', Fourth Estate. 1 October 2007; {{ISBN|0-00-724580-7}}</ref>

The Sacher-Masoch family secretly opposed the Nazi regime in Vienna. Faithfull's father met Eva through his intelligence work for the British Army, which brought him into contact with her family.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/episode/marianne-faithfull/|title=Marianne Faithfull|date=17 June 2020 |publisher=BBC News|access-date=1 December 2021|archive-date=1 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211201233052/https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/episode/marianne-faithfull/|url-status=live}}</ref> Faithfull's maternal grandfather had aristocratic roots in the [[Habsburg Dynasty]], and Faithfull's maternal grandmother was Jewish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.canada.com/cityguides/vancouver/story.html?id=c2a86822-529a-421f-959e-e0e613a0fc53&k=94564|title=Marianne keeps the Faith|work=Vancouver City Guide|access-date=26 January 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104093456/http://www.canada.com/cityguides/vancouver/story.html?id=c2a86822-529a-421f-959e-e0e613a0fc53&k=94564|archive-date=4 November 2012}}</ref>

Faithfull's maternal great-great-uncle was [[Leopold von Sacher-Masoch]],<ref Name="NYTObit">{{cite news |last1=Farber |first1=Jim |title=Marianne Faithfull, a Pop Star Turned Survivor, Is Dead at 78 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/arts/music/marianne-faithfull-dead.html |access-date=30 January 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=30 January 2025 |archive-date=30 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250130195703/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/arts/music/marianne-faithfull-dead.html |url-status=live }}</ref> whose erotic novel ''[[Venus in Furs]]'' spawned the word "[[Sadomasochism|masochism]]".<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.mariannefaithfull.org.uk/inter23.html|title=Sex god? Marianne's last word|work=The Times|date=19 June 1999|format=interview|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070315133950/http://www.mariannefaithfull.org.uk/inter23.html|archive-date=15 March 2007}}</ref> Regarding her roots in the Austrian nobility, Faithfull appeared on the British television series ''[[Who Do You Think You Are? (British TV series)#Series 10 (2013)|Who Do You Think You Are?]]'', which discussed that the title used by family members was Ritter von Sacher-Masoch.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Documentation License|first1=GNU Free|title=Ritter|url=http://72.9.148.189/learn/index.php?title=Ritter&printable=yes|publisher=GNU Free|access-date=25 March 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402103601/http://72.9.148.189/learn/index.php?title=Ritter&printable=yes|archive-date=2 April 2015}}</ref>

=== Childhood ===
Faithfull's family lived in [[Ormskirk]], Lancashire, while her father completed a doctorate at [[Liverpool University]].<ref name="BeatlesE" /> Marianne spent part of her early life in [[Braziers Park]], Oxfordshire, at a [[Intentional community|commune]] formed by John Norman Glaister in which Faithfull's father played an instrumental role.<ref name="Horsley2019">{{cite book |last1=Horsley |first1=Jasun |title=The Vice of Kings: How Socialism, Occultism, and the Sexual Revolution Engineered a Culture of Abuse |date=2019 |publisher=Aeon Books |isbn=978-1-911597-13-1 |page=37 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tOzyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA37}}</ref>

Her parents divorced when she was six.<ref name="BeatlesE" /> Faithfull's half-brother, 19 years her junior, is artist [[Simon Faithfull]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/marianne-faithfull-dies-78-20066286.php|title=Marianne Faithfull, '60s singer and post-punk icon, dies at 78}}</ref> Following the divorce, Faithfull moved with her mother to [[Reading, Berkshire]]. Her primary school was in [[Brixton]], London.{{clarify|reason = How does one get from living in Ormskirk, Oxfordshire or Reading to going to school in Brixton?|date=November 2024}} They lived in underprivileged circumstances, and Marianne's girlhood was marred by bouts of [[tuberculosis]]. She was a [[bursary|charitably subsidised (bursaried) pupil]] at [[St Joseph's College, Reading|St Joseph's Roman Catholic Convent School, Reading]], where she was for a time a weekly boarder.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Brown|first1=Craig|title=Top of the Fops|date=10 February 2001 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4259397/Top-of-the-fops.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4259397/Top-of-the-fops.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|publisher=UK Daily Telegraph|access-date=25 March 2015|ref=10 February 2001}}{{cbignore}}</ref> While at St Joseph's, she was a member of the [[Progress Theatre]]'s student group.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fret |first1=David |title=Brit Girls of the Sixties Volume Two: Marianne Faithfull & Kathy Kirby |date=26 March 2014 |publisher=Lulu.com |isbn=978-1-291-80286-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hm5OCAAAQBAJ&q=progress+theater+marianne+faithfull&pg=PT11 |access-date=4 July 2020 |archive-date=9 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230709201100/https://books.google.com/books?id=Hm5OCAAAQBAJ&q=progress+theater+marianne+faithfull&pg=PT11 |url-status=live }}</ref>