Editing Elsa Lanchester (section)

==Early life==
Elsa Sullivan Lanchester was born in [[Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham|Lewisham]], London.<ref name="ODNB">{{Cite ODNB|id=57311|title=Lanchester [married name Laughton], Elsa Sullivan (1902–1986)}}</ref> Her parents, James "[[Séamus]]" Sullivan (1872–1945) and [[Edith Lanchester|Edith "Biddy" Lanchester]] (1871–1966), were [[Bohemianism|Bohemian]]s, and refused to marry in a religious or legal way as a rebellion against [[Edwardian era]] society. Sullivan and Lanchester were both [[Marxism|socialist]]s, according to Lanchester's 1970<!-- probably not 1972, see talk. --> interview with [[Dick Cavett]]. Elsa's older brother, [[Waldo Lanchester|Waldo Sullivan Lanchester]], born five years earlier, was a [[puppeteer]], with his own [[marionette]] company based in [[Malvern, Worcestershire|Malvern]], [[Worcestershire]], and later in [[Stratford-upon-Avon]].<ref>{{cite magazine |date=1951 |author=<!--Not stated-->   |title=The Lanchester Marionettes |magazine= The British Puppet and Model Theatre Guild Festival Exhibition |location=London, mUK |publisher= British Puppet and Model Theatre Guild |page=43}}</ref> Elsa studied dance in [[Paris]] under [[Isadora Duncan]], whom she disliked. When the school was discontinued due to outbreak of [[World War I]], she returned to the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|UK]]. At that point (she was about twelve years of age) she began teaching dance in the Duncan style and gave classes to children in her [[south London]] district, through which she earned some welcome extra income for her household.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}