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Blixen's former secretary and house manager, Clara Svendsen wrote a book, Notes about Karen Blixen ( Danish: Notater om Karen Blixen) in 1974, which told of the transformation of the young woman who moved to Africa into the sophisticated writer. Giving personal anecdotes about Blixen's life, Svendsen focused on the private woman behind her public image. [86] Blixen's great-nephew, Anders Westenholz, an accomplished writer himself, wrote two books about her and her works: Kraftens horn: myte og virkelighed i Karen Blixens liv (1982) (translated into English as The Power of Aries: myth and reality in Karen Blixen's life and republished in 1987) and Den glemte abe: mand og kvinde hos Karen Blixen (1985) (The Forgotten Ape: man and woman in Karen Blixen). [87] Behrendt, Poul (5 September 2012). "Karen Blixen and Isak Dinesen: One woman, two authors". News KU. Copenhagen, Denmark: University of Copenhagen. Archived from the original on 2 October 2016 . Retrieved 20 November 2016. Richards, Dave (2007). Kenya Travel Guide (5th ed.). London, England: New Holland Publishers. ISBN 978-1-84537-879-0.

Schmidt-Madsen, Sune de Souza (2012). En lille bog om Blixen [ A Small Book about Blixen] (in Danish). Copenhagen, Denmark: Lindhardt og Ringhof. ISBN 978-87-11-38035-2. New Europe Stamps will be issued on 9 May 1996". Norbyhus. Cophenhagen, Denmark: Post Denmark, Stamps & Philately. 27 September 2010. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014 . Retrieved 3 April 2014. American album certifications – John Barry – Out of Africa". Recording Industry Association of America. By 1919, the marriage had run into difficulties, causing her husband to request a divorce in 1920. Bror was dismissed as the farm manager by their uncle, Aage Westenholz, chair of the Karen Coffee Company, and Karen took over its management [14] in 1921. [4] [7] As a consequence, she was diagnosed with syphilis according to her biographer Judith Thurman. [14] She herself attributed her symptoms, in a letter to her brother Thomas, to syphilis acquired at 29 years old from her husband toward the end of their first year of marriage in 1915. However, later in life, her medical records do not support that diagnosis. She had been locally prescribed mercury and arsenic, a treatment for the disease in her time. It is now believed that some of her later symptoms were the result of heavy metal poisoning. [16]

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Brantly, Susan (December 2013). Christiansen, Lene Bull; Hvenegård-Lassen, Kirsten; Hansen, Nanna Kirstine Leets (eds.). "Karen Blixen's Challenges to Postcolonial Criticism" (PDF). KULT Postkolonial Temaserie. Made in Denmark—Investigations of the Dispersal of "Danishness". 11: 29–44. ISSN 1904-1594 . Retrieved 19 November 2016. Soon after Dinesen arrived in Kenya, which at the time was part of British East Africa, she and Blixen were married in Mombasa on 14 January 1914. [11] After her marriage, she became known as Baroness Blixen, and she used the title until her then ex-husband remarried in 1929. [12] Bror had attended agricultural college at Alnarp, and then managed the Stjetneholm farm, within the Nasbyholm estate. During her early years, Karen spent part of her time at her mother's family home, the Mattrup seat farm near Horsens. Karen and Bror planned to raise cattle on their farm, but eventually they became convinced that coffee would be more profitable. [13] The Karen Coffee Company was established by their uncle, Aage Westerholz, who chose the name after his daughter Karen, Blixen's cousin, rather than to create an association with Karen Blixen. [8] The couple soon established their first farm, Mbagathi, in the Great Lakes area.Walter, Eugene (Autumn 1956). "Isak Dinesen, The Art of Fiction". The Paris Review (14). ISSN 0031-2037 . Retrieved 20 November 2016. Marilyn Wiggles into the Literary Set". Gaffney, South Carolina: The Gaffney Ledger. 24 February 1959. p. 5 . Retrieved 24 December 2016 – via Newspapers.com. For her literary accomplishments, Blixen was awarded the Danish Holberg Medal in 1949, [81] the Ingenio et Arti medal in 1952

Shed Real Tears". The Times. San Mateo, California. 6 February 1959. p. 23 . Retrieved 24 December 2016 – via Newspapers.com. Kempley, Rita (8 April 1988). " 'Babette's Feast' ". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C . Retrieved 19 November 2016. Wivel, Ole (29 August 2013). "Karen Blixen". Dansk Biografisk Leksikon (in Danish). Copenhagen, Denmark: Gyldendal. Archived from the original on 21 October 2016 . Retrieved 21 October 2016. McBride, Joseph (1996). Orson Welles (Revised ed.). New York City, New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-80674-2.

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Karen Blixen". National Museums of Kenya. Nairobi, Kenya. 2007. Archived from the original on 10 November 2016 . Retrieved 25 December 2016. As the movie ends, the on-screen narrative notes that Karen later became a published author under the pen name Isak Dinesen. Among her work is the memoir about her experiences in Africa, Out of Africa, the first line from which is used to introduce this film. She never returned to Africa.