Frieda Lawrence

Baroness Frieda von Richthofen ( born August 11, 1879 in Metz, † August 11 1956 in Taos ) was a German writer and translator.

Life

Emma Maria Frieda Johanna Baroness von Richthofen (married Frieda Weekley, Frieda Lawrence later ) was born on August 11, 1879 in Metz. Her father was Carl Friedrich Louis Ernst Emil von Richthofen (1845-1915), an engineer in the German army, her mother Anna Elise Lydia, born Marquier ( 1851-1930 ).

Frieda married on August 29, 1899 British Professor Ernest Weekley ( 1865-1954 ), with whom she had three children, Charles Montague ( born 1900 ), Elsa Frieda Agnes (* 1902) and Barbara Joy ( * 1904). During her marriage with Weekley she translated Schiller's ballads and Ludwig Bechstein's fairy tales into English.

Especially by her older sister Else von Richthofen (1874-1973), the 1902 Edgar Jaffé had married Frieda came into contact with intellectuals and writers, including sociologists and economists Max and Alfred Weber, the psychoanalyst Otto Gross and the novelist Fanny Reventlow.

In 1912 she met DH Lawrence, her husband, a student, and fell in love with him. She left her husband and children and went with Lawrence first to Metz. After her divorce from Frieda Weekley and Lawrence married in 1914, Living with Lawrence was not easy. Lawrence had tuberculosis as a result of a poor health and his income as a writer were low. They moved from one place to another until they finally in Taos (New Mexico) settled. After Lawrence's death in Vence (France) on March 2, 1930 Frieda returned to Taos. On 31 October 1950 she married Angelino Ravagli.

Frieda Lawrence died at her 77th birthday in Taos.

She was a distant relative of the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen.