Editing Marianne Faithfull (section)

=== 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>