Editing Pauline Viardot (section)

==Name==
Her name appears in various forms. When it is not simply "Pauline Viardot", it most commonly appears in association with her maiden name García or the unaccented form, Garcia. This name sometimes precedes Viardot and sometimes follows it. Sometimes the words are hyphenated; sometimes they are not. She achieved initial fame as "Pauline García"; the accent was dropped at some point, but exactly when is not clear.<ref>Grove's Dictionary, 5th edition (1954), in a footnote to their article on her father, says: ''The correct Spanish spelling of the name is García, but the family dropped the accent at some time, probably when its members began to become known abroad.''</ref> After her marriage, she referred to herself simply as "Mme Viardot".<ref name="hilde"/>