Editing Marcel Moore (section)

==Early life==
Moore was born Suzanne Alberte Malherbe in [[Nantes]], France on 19 July 1892,<ref name="Heritage">{{cite journal|last=Downie|first=Louise|year=2005|title=Sans Nom: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore|url=https://www.jerseyheritage.org/media/PDF-Heritage-Mag/Sans%20Nom%20Claude%20Cahun%20%20Marcel%20Moore.pdf|journal=Heritage Magazine|volume=2005|pages=8–9|access-date=7 March 2015}}</ref> and studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Nantes.  In 1909, at age seventeen, Malherbe met fifteen-year-old Lucy Schwob and began a lifelong artistic collaboration.<ref name="Acting">{{cite web|last=Latimer|first=Tirza True|title=Acting Out: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore|url=http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/Tirza/TirzaEssay1.html|website=QueerCulturalCenter.org|publisher=Queer Cultural Center|access-date=7 March 2015|archive-date=2 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402094517/http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/Tirza/TirzaEssay1.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>  Malherbe's widowed mother married Schwob's divorced father in 1917.  Curator Tirza True Latimer has theorized that this step-sister relationship not only encouraged the young women's creative collaborations but also facilitated their romantic relationship.<ref name="Acting" />  Between 1920 and 1937, they lived in Paris, where they became involved with the [[surrealism]] movement and contributed to avant-garde theater activities.<ref name="Daily">{{cite web|editor-last=Villareal|editor-first=Jose|title=Acting Out: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore|url=http://artdaily.com/news/15056/Acting-Out--Claude-Cahun-and-Marcel-Moore#.VPtJaMYhw-8|website=ArtDaily.com|access-date=7 March 2015}}</ref>  They took male [[pseudonym]]s: Malherbe became Marcel Moore, and Schwob became [[Claude Cahun]].<ref name="Odysseys">{{cite book|last=Solomon-Godeau|first=Abigail|editor1-last=Rice|editor1-first=Shelley|title=Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman|year=1999|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology|isbn=0262681064|pages=116|chapter=The Equivocal "I": Claude Cahun as Lesbian Subject}}</ref> They remained together until Cahun's death in 1954.<ref name="Odysseys" />