How To Use Blixen In A Sentence
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Blixen's repeated attempts to establish a coffee plantation were foredoomed because neither the soil nor the altitude was right for such a venture.
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Olive Schreiner was not an aristocrat, and her perception of the Africa where she was born is a different perception than, for instance, the perception of someone like Karen Blixen, who, for all her remarkable empathy, brought her aristocratic assumptions to the continent and conceived herself as a benevolent goddess on a farm that existed because of the land-grabbing and punitive tax policies of the colonists.
The Story of an African Farm
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Until 1942 there was no reliable cure for syphilis, too late for Karen Blixen.
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Until 1942 there was no reliable cure for syphilis, too late for Karen Blixen.
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