Baroness Karen Blixen

Back in 1913 on the ship out to Africa von Lettow-Vorbeck had met and been charmed by Baroness Karen Blixen, a Danish aristo on her way to join her new cousin-husband (and philanderer, who would give her syphilis) at their farm in Kenya, where over the next eighteen years Blixen would try (and fail) to run a profitable coffee plantation.

American Connections James Burke 2007

Back in 1913 on the ship out to Africa von Lettow-Vorbeck had met and been charmed by Baroness Karen Blixen, a Danish aristo on her way to join her new cousin-husband (and philanderer, who would give her syphilis) at their farm in Kenya, where over the next eighteen years Blixen would try (and fail) to run a profitable coffee plantation.

American Connections James Burke 2007

Both she and her husband painted in inspiring ways, one of the first artists I loved walking in New York museums. key], pseud. of Baroness Karen Blixen,,

A Day In the Life Sarah 2010