Frieda Von Richthofen

About

Distant relative of the famous Red Baron and wife of the renowned novelist DH Lawrence.

Before Fame

She met DH Lawrence while he was a student of her first husband, Ernest Weekley.

Trivia

She moved in European intellectual and literary circles and became the lover of the groundbreaking psychoanalyst Otto Gross.

Family Life

She had three children with her first husband.

Associated With

Lady Chatterley's Lover, the only D.H. Lawrence work approved for the stage, may have been inspired by the class tensions inherent in Lawrence's marriage to Richthofen.