section_path: Early life/Childhood
section_name: Childhood
paragraph_text: Childhood
  
  Faithfull's family lived in Ormskirk, Lancashire, while her father completed a doctorate at Liverpool University. Marianne spent part of her early life in Braziers Park, Oxfordshire, at a commune formed by John Norman Glaister in which Faithfull's father played an instrumental role.
  
  Her parents divorced when she was six. Faithfull's half-brother, 19 years her junior, is artist Simon Faithfull. Following the divorce, Faithfull moved with her mother to Reading, Berkshire. Her primary school was in Brixton, London. They lived in underprivileged circumstances, and Marianne's girlhood was marred by bouts of tuberculosis. She was a charitably subsidised (bursaried) pupil at St Joseph's Roman Catholic Convent School, Reading, where she was for a time a weekly boarder. While at St Joseph's, she was a member of the Progress Theatre 's student group.
  
  Faithfull's family lived in Ormskirk, Lancashire, while her father completed a doctorate at Liverpool University. Marianne spent part of her early life in Braziers Park, Oxfordshire, at a commune formed by John Norman Glaister in which Faithfull's father played an instrumental role.
  
  Her parents divorced when she was six. Faithfull's half-brother, 19 years her junior, is artist Simon Faithfull. Following the divorce, Faithfull moved with her mother to Reading, Berkshire. Her primary school was in Brixton, London. They lived in underprivileged circumstances, and Marianne's girlhood was marred by bouts of tuberculosis. She was a charitably subsidised (bursaried) pupil at St Joseph's Roman Catholic Convent School, Reading, where she was for a time a weekly boarder. While at St Joseph's, she was a member of the Progress Theatre 's student group.