View Document |
printer-friendly version |
Finding Aid of the Collection of Papers on Frieda Lawrence, 1943-1958The University of New Mexico, University Libraries, Center for Southwest ResearchEmail: cswrref@unm.eduURL: http://eLibrary.unm.edu/cswr ©1999 The University of New Mexico
Biographical InformationFrieda Emma Johanna Maria von Richthofen was born on August 11, 1879 in Metz, France. She was the second of three daughters of Baron Friedrich von Richthofen, a soldier and civil service official in Metz. Before she turned 20, Frieda had married Professor Ernest Weekley. They moved to Nottingham, and had three children. In 1912, Frieda met David Herbert (D. H.) Lawrence, who was one of Weekley's students. They immediately fell in love and within a month, left together for Germany. D. H. and Frieda married in 1914. Frieda Lawrence was intimately involved in D. H. Lawrence's work. Facets of her personality are often discernable as components of characters in his poems and novels. She inspired D. H. by her "unconventional behavior, beauty, gaity, and sensuality." Both Frieda and D. H. Lawrence had volatile personalities; consequently, their relationship was often "fiery." After his death at Venice in 1930, Frieda settled in New Mexico. In 1952 she married Italian artist, Angelo Ravagli. Frieda Lawrence died in Taos on August 11, 1956 at the age of 77. She was an author in her own right, probably best known for "Not I, but the Wind ...". Scope and ContentThis collection, containing correspondence, holographic notebooks, prints, and clippings, appears to have been compiled by the University of New Mexico Special Collections. It documents discussions between the Library and Frieda Lawrence, concerning the disposition of D. H. Lawrence's manuscripts. It also contains correspondence from Albert James Diaz, Special Collections Librarian, requesting biographical information about Frieda Lawrence. Diaz was involved with editing and ultimately publishing a manuscript of Frieda Lawrence's original, found in notebook #1. The manuscript was published with the title, "Gisla" in the January 1958 issue of Manuscripts. The collection also contains reproductive prints and a lithograph, along with 3 notebooks, which were found at her ranch after it was given to UNM.. RestrictionsAccess RestrictionsThe collection is open for research. Copy RestrictionsLimited duplication of print and photographic material is allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for compliance with all copyright, privacy, and libel laws. Permission is required for publications or distribution. Preferred CitationCollection of Papers on Frieda Lawrence (MSS 144), Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, University of New Mexico Libraries. Separated MaterialPhotograph of D. H. and Frieda Lawrence transferred to Pictorial Collections. Related Archival CollectionsD. H. Lawrence Papers Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University of New Mexico. D. H. Lawrence Realia Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University of New Mexico. Ernest Tedlock Papers Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University of New Mexico. Dorothy Brett Papers Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University of New Mexico. Mabel Dodge Luhan Papers Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University of New Mexico. Thomas Matthews Pearce Papers Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University of New Mexico. Eleanor Murray Watkins Papers Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University of New Mexico Porter-Harvey Family Papers Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico Access TermsLawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 Lawrence, Frieda von Richthofen, 1879-1956 Contents List
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
