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Who was Frieda Weekley?
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D.H. Lawrence
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Frieda Weekley (née von Richthofen) was an aristocratic German woman who became the wife of D.H. Lawrence. Before meeting Lawrence, she was married to a professor at Nottingham. In 1912, she eloped with Lawrence, traveling with him to Germany and Italy. Following her divorce, she and Lawrence were married in England in 1914.1