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When Blixen was diagnosed with syphilis in 1915, she was treated with mercury tablets. She took approximately 1 gram of mercury per day for almost a year according to some reports, [68] while others show she did so for only a few months. [62] She then spent time in Denmark for treatment and was given arsenic, which she continued to take in drop form as a treatment for the syphilis that she thought was the cause of her continued pain. [69] Blixen had reported severe bouts of abdominal pain as early as 1921, while she was still in Kenya. [62] Several well-known physicians and specialists of both internal medicine and neurology diagnosed her with third-stage chronic syphilis. [70] Mogens Fog, who was Blixen's neurologist, thought that her gastric problems were attributable to syphilis, in spite of the fact that blood and spinal fluid tests were negative. [62] [68] By the time she left Africa, Blixen was suffering from anemia, had jaundice and had overused arsenic. As clumps of her hair had begun to fall out, she took to wearing hats and turbans. [71] Dinesen, Isak (1989). Out of Africa and Shadows on the grass (International Vintage ed.). New York, New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0679724759.

Updike, John (23 February 1986). " 'Seven Gothic Tales': The Divine Swank of Isak Dinesen". The New York Times. New York City, New York. Archived from the original on 26 October 2016 . Retrieved 26 October 2016. Hannah, Donald (1971). "Isak Dinesen" and Karen Blixen: the mask and the reality. New York, New York: Random House. ISBN 978-037-00011-4-2.

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Posthumous Publications". Blixen Denmark. Rungsted Kyst, Denmark: Karen Blixen Museet. 2015. Archived from the original on 16 October 2015 . Retrieved 9 May 2015. Gagné, Laurie Brands (Spring 2008). "The Artist as Peacemaker: "Babette's Feast" as a Narrative of Reconciliation". Renascence. 60 (3): 224–235. doi: 10.5840/articledoi. ISSN 0034-4346. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required) Book Nook". Wilmington, Ohio: The Wilmington News-Journal. 12 January 1959. p. 5 . Retrieved 24 December 2016 – via Newspapers.com. Pløjeren (The Ploughman), October 1907, published in Danish in Gads danske Magasin, under the name Osceola) [104] Langbaum, Robert (1975) Isak Dinesen's Art: The Gayety of Vision (University of Chicago Press) ISBN 0-226-46871-2

A Tale-weaving sorcerous". Life. Vol. 46, no. 3. 19 January 1959. ISSN 0024-3019 . Retrieved 24 December 2016. Pauline Kael of The New Yorker described the film as "unsatisfying" and wrote that Streep is "animated in the early scenes; she's amusing when she acts ditsy, and she has some oddly affecting moments. Her character doesn't deepen though, or come to mean more to us, and Redford doesn't give out with anything for her to play against." [24] Paul Attanasio of The Washington Post stated that the film "has little in the way of narrative drive" and "rarely seems more than an elevated form of tourism." [25] 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. Frans Lasson (1997). "Chronology" . Retrieved 28 April 2020. 1979 MARCH 10 [...] Daguerreotypes and Other Essays by Isak Dinesen is published in the U.S.A. and England.

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Karen Dinesen was born in Rungstedlund, north of Copenhagen. Her father, Wilhelm Dinesen (1845–1895), was a writer and army officer, including in the 1864 war by Denmark against Prussia and who also joined the French army against Prussia and wrote about the Paris Commune. He was from a wealthy family of Jutland landowners [3] closely connected to the monarchy, the established church and conservative politics. He was elected as Member of Parliament. Her mother, Ingeborg Westenholz (1856–1939), came from a wealthy Unitarian bourgeois merchant family of ship owners. [4] Karen Dinesen was the second oldest in a family of three sisters and two brothers. Her younger brother, Thomas Dinesen, grew up to earn the Victoria Cross in the First World War. [5] Karen was known to her friends as "Tanne". [6]

Salaverrie, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (PDF) (in Spanish) (1st ed.). Madrid: Fundación Autor/SGAE. p. 961. ISBN 84-8048-639-2 . Retrieved 6 May 2019.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four stars out of four and called it "one of the great recent epic romances," adding, "What we have here is an old-fashioned, intelligent, thoughtful love story, told with enough care and attention that we really get involved in the passions among the characters." [18] Vincent Canby of The New York Times described it as "a big, physically elaborate but wispy movie" with Redford's character "a total cipher, and a charmless one at that. It's not Mr. Redford's fault. There's no role for him to act." [19] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and declared, "My basic problem with this otherwise sumptuous and well-acted film is that I never was able to accept Redford in character ... He seems distant to the point of distraction. He is not convincing in his period outfits. He looks and acts as if he just walked out of the safari fitting room at Abercrombie & Fitch." [20] David Ansen of Newsweek wrote that the film was "well worth the wait," calling it "a sprawling but always intelligent romantic epic that depicts Karen Blixen's struggles to hold on to both the man and the land she loves and cannot possess." [21]

At Fynch Hatton, they take great pride in producing high-quality garments that embody the adventurous spirit of their inspiration. Their collection of clothes has grown over the years and now includes everything a man needs to be well dressed. Each garment is made with exceptional attention to detail and craftsmanship, ensuring that they stand out from the crowd. Jensen, Niels (25 August 2010). "Tagea Brandts Rejselegat" [Tagea Brandts Travel Scholarship]. Litteraturpriser Denmark (in Danish). Archived from the original on 14 March 2016 . Retrieved 3 November 2016. List of recipients. Self-published, but with references . {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript ( link) When Blixen returned to Denmark in 1931, she sold her property to a developer, Remi Martin, who divided the land into 20 acres (8.1 ha) parcels. [97] The Nairobi suburb that emerged on the land where Blixen farmed coffee is now named Karen. Blixen herself declared in her later writings that "the residential district of Karen" was "named after me". [98] The family corporation that owned Blixen's farm was incorporated as the "Karen Coffee Company" and the house she lived in was built by the chairman of the board, Aage Westenholz, her uncle. [99] [97] Though Westenholz named the coffee company after his own daughter Karen and not Blixen, [8] the developer of the suburb named the district after its famous author/farmer rather than the name of her company. [97] [100] [101] A considerable proportion of the Karen Blixen archive at the Royal Danish Library consists of the unpublished poems, plays and short stories Karen Dinesen wrote before she married and left for Africa. In her teens and early 20s, she probably spent much of her spare time practising the art of writing. It was only when she was 22 that she decided to publish some of her short stories in literary journals, adopting the pen name Osceola. [102] This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( February 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Karen Dinesen's life at Rungstedlund changed significantly after her father's death. From the age of 10 years, her life was dominated by her Westenholz family. Unlike her brothers, who attended school, she was educated at home by her maternal grandmother and by her aunt, Mary B. Westenholz, who brought her up in the staunch Unitarian tradition. Aunt Bess, as Westenholz was known to Dinesen, had a significant impact on her niece. They engaged in lively discussions and correspondence on women's rights and relationships between men and women. [4] Although it was widely believed that syphilis continued to plague Blixen throughout her lifetime, [62] [69] extensive tests were unable to reveal evidence of syphilis in her system after 1925. [68] Her writing prowess suggests that she did not suffer from the mental degeneration of late stages of syphilis. She did suffer a mild permanent loss of sensation in her legs that could be attributed to use of the arsenic-based anti-syphilis drug salvarsan. [62] Her gastric pain was often called " tropic dysentery", though no stool analyses were reported in her medical records. Concerned about gaining weight, Blixen took strong laxatives "during her whole adult life", which after years of misuse affected her digestive system. She also was a heavy smoker, which when combined with her minimal food intake led to her developing a peptic ulcer. [70] Kempley, Rita (8 April 1988). " 'Babette's Feast' ". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C . Retrieved 19 November 2016. Rowe, Kaye (18 March 1965). "Book Recalls Presence of Writer Isak Dinesen". Brandon, Manitoba, Canada: The Brandon Sun. p. 9 . Retrieved 24 December 2016 – via Newspapers.com.

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