Author. She received notoriety as the wife of English author D.H. Lawrence, and for writing his memoirs i n 1934, "Not I, but the Wind." A great success, the memoirs sold briskly and were reprinted several times. Born Baroness Emma Maria Frieda Johanna Freiin von Richthofen, she was the middle of three daughters of Baron Friedrich von Richthofen, a civil engineer, and his wife Anna Marquier von Richthofen. Her older sister, Else was the brain of the three earning a PhD; while her younger sister, Johanna, was the beauty; and Frieda was known as the out-spoken, energetic one. She attended local Roman Catholic convent schools. After her August 29, 1899 wedding, she moved from Germany to England with her husband, Ernest Weekley, a professor of French at the University College of Nottingham. Her husband was 15 years her senior and by 1904, the couple were parents to a son and two daughters. She had a couple of extramarital affairs with men, who were outspoken politically. In March of 1912, she had a chance meeting of Lawrence. Six weeks after their meeting, the couple left England and trave led to her parents' home in Germany. That summer of 1912 the couple walked south across the Alps to Italy to begin their life together. She missed her children, but since she abandoned them, Weekley worked with the courts to keep them from her. After she received her divorce on May 28, 1914, the couple were married in England on July 13, 1914. She had little domestic skills leaving the cooking and cleaning to Lawrence. During World War I , the couple were hounded by the English authorities because her husband was not in the military and she was German-born. Her cousin was the celebrated German ace and pilot, Manfred Von Richthofen. They moved to Cornwall, then to London, and finally to Berkshire, but were continually stalked by the police as "persons of interest." After the war, the couple relocated to Italy in a voluntary exile from England. Although they repeatedly quarreled, her husband was devoted to her even after her unfaithfulness. Her husband was producing novels but with the stark sexual overtones he used, society was banning his work in many countries. The censoring of her husband's writings impacted his income, thus they were frequently living in poverty. Besides Italy, and Germany, she and her husband traveled in exile to Australia, Ceylon, New Zealand , Tahiti, the French Riviera, Mexico, settling in Taos, New Mexico by the fall of 1922. A friend gave the couple a rundown ranch, "Kiowa," which was the only home that they owned; the couple worked to restore and expand the ranch. On the old isolated ranch, they found peace, and the climate benefited her husband's chronic lung condition. In 1925 they returned to Europe for a short visit as she wanted to see her children. Her husband's health was rapidly declining. In August of 1924, her husband suffered from a bronchial hemorrhage from tuberculosis, which followed with influenza, bouts of typhoid fever, and Malaria., and in the spring of 1927, another bronchial hemorrhage. The last 18 months of her husband's life were difficult and impacting the quality of life for her dealing was a cranky, sometimes abusive husband. They traveled to France in mid-1928 and eventually her husband was admitted to a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients. Upon her husband's request, she found a nearby villa and nurse to give care, and he discharged himself against medical advice on March 1, 1930. He died within 24 hours. He was initially buried in a small cemetery near the Mediterranean Sea, but his remains were eventually cremated, and in April of 1935 brought back to New Mexico where the ashes were buried in a memorial chapel on their ranch. Depending on the source, she inspired Lawrence to write, was her husband's critic, did editing, and may even had a more active role in the writing. Her grave is on the outside of the chapel. Since Lawrence managed their personal business and his professional business without her, she was lost at first dealing with these demands while grieving. Since it was thought her husband died without a will, it was necessary for her to take to court the Lawrence family over the subject of royalty rights, but the two-year-long case was dismissed when a 1914 will was found stating she was the heir. On October 31, 1950, she married for a third time to Angelo Ravagli, a captain in the Italian Army. She had met him on the 1925 trip of Europe. In May 1933, she returned to the Kiowa Ranch at Taos with Ravagli, who had since separated from his wife but not divorced until 1950. Before and after their marriage, there were other women in his life. The couple traveled, built another house, entertained members of the artist community, and stayed busy with the details of Lawrence's complex estate. In 1952 she traveled to England to visit with her children, their spouses, and her five grandchildren. Since Weekley was nearly 90 years old and blind, her children stated a visit from her would upset him, hence she did not visit him. Although she suffered with asthma, she stayed busy as ever after returning to the ranch. Her life was good until April of 1956 when she became seriously ill with a viral infection, which left her with a residual weakness. On August 8, 1956 she had a massive stroke and died three days later. Her husband and three children with their families survived her. In her last years, she had attempted to write a second volume, "And The Fullness Thereof," which was published posthumously as "Frieda Lawrence: The Memoirs and Correspondence." In 1991 Janet Byrne published her biography, "A Genius for Living-Biography of Frieda Lawrence."