The pre-World War I German counterculture roots to the American free love movement of the sixties and seventies were the subject of a talk by Dr. Katherine Toy Miller.  Dr. Miller, who is editing the memoirs of Frieda Lawrence, outlined the German Lebensreform or "life reform" movement. A rebellion against industrialism and the patriarchy, it emphasized nature and the feminine.  

    She discussed how many of the revolutionary ideas D. H. Lawrence wrote about, particularly those on sex, love, and the independence of women, he encountered first-hand when he met the German-born Frieda von Richthofen Weekley in England the spring of 1912 and the two journeyed through Germany a few months later.  Sheread from Frieda's memoirs and Lawrence's novel Mr. Noon.