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Blixen [née Dinesen], Karen Christenze [pseud. Isak Dinesen]

(1885–1962)

Liz Gunner

https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/63464

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Blixen [née Dinesen], Karen Christenze [pseud. Isak Dinesen] (1885–1962), autobiographer and short-story writer, was born on 17 April 1885 in Rungstedlund, near Copenhagen, Denmark, the second of five children of Wilhelm Adolph Dinesen (1845–1895) and his wife, Ingeborg Westenholz (1856–1940). Thomas...

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date: 02 March 2021

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