Editing Renée Vivien (section)

===Early life===
Renée Vivien was born '''Pauline Mary Tarn''' in [[London|London, England]] to {{ill|John Tarn|qid=Q96091363|short=yes}}, a British farmer who had become wealthy through property investments, and an American mother, {{ill|Mary Gilett Bennett|qid=Q96091364|short=yes}}.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pauline Mary Tarn details on a grave monument at Passy Cemetery, Paris, France|url=http://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/namedetails.php?grave=272676&forenames=Pauline%20Mary&surname=Tarn|accessdate=28 September 2020|website=gravestonephotos.com}}</ref><ref name="Delmas 2022-03-21">{{cite web |last=Delmas |first=Lisa |translator-last=Sharpley |translator-first=Gammon |title=TARN Pauline |website=Agorha |date=2022-03-21 |url=https://agorha.inha.fr/detail/307 |access-date=2024-06-08}}</ref><ref name="Cyane 2006">{{cite web |last=Cyane |first=Cristie |title=Renée Vivien |website=reneevivien.com |date=2006-02-09 |url=http://www.reneevivien.com/vie.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120806081707/http://www.reneevivien.com/vie.html |archive-date=2012-08-06 |url-status=dead |language=fr}}</ref> Pauline attended the Belsize College in [[Hampstead]], London, where, in 1883, she was awarded a silver medal by the ''[[Alliance française]]'' for her study of French.<ref name="The Leeds Mercury 1883 p. 2">{{cite journal |title=The National Society of French Teachers |journal=The Leeds Mercury |publisher=Edward and Frederick Baines |publication-place=Leeds [England] |issue=17,110 |date=6 February 1893 |oclc=641537675 |page=2 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000076/18930206/002/0002 |url-access=subscription |via=The British Newspaper Archive}}</ref><ref name="The Jersey Weekly Press and Independent 1883 p. 6">{{cite journal |title=French Masters at the Mansion House |journal=The Jersey Weekly Press and Independent |volume=48 |issue=6 |date=11 February 1893 |publication-place=Saint Helier, Jersey [Channel Islands] |oclc=751646390 |page=6 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001580/18930211/112/0006 |url-access=subscription |via=The British Newspaper Archive}}</ref> While she was attending school in [[Paris]], her father died in 1886.<ref name="LC 2017">{{cite web |author=LC |date=2017-06-12 |title=JUNE 11: Renée Vivien (1877-1909) |url=https://365daysoflesbians.tumblr.com/post/161718255637/june-11-ren%C3%A9e-vivien-1877-1909 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214000805/https://365daysoflesbians.tumblr.com/post/161718255637/june-11-ren%C3%A9e-vivien-1877-1909 |archive-date=2018-12-14 |website=365 Days of Lesbians}}{{better source needed|date=April 2023|reason|[[WPUGC|User-generated content]]}}</ref> Upon his death, Pauline returned to London to receive her inheritance from him.<ref name="Cyane 2006" /> Purportedly, Pauline's mother attempted to declare her legally insane so that she could have her husband's inheritance money instead. The plot failed, and Pauline was taken away from her mother to live as a ward of the court until she came of age.<ref name="LC 2017" /> In 1899, after she turned 21, Pauline returned to France with the inheritance money. It is around this time that she began to go by the name of Renée Vivien.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|date=10 June 2020|title=Renée Vivien and the Trials of Lesbian Poetry|url=https://artlark.org/2020/06/11/renee-vivien-the-misunderstood-lesbian-sonneteer/|access-date=28 September 2020|website=A R T L▼R K|language=en}}</ref>