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mckinney
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Karen Blixen
      #389925 - 24/02/25 03:53 AM

Perhaps this post should have gone in the Literature and Film section.

We’ve talked a little in the past about the financial circumstances of Karen Blixen’s family and the cost of her 17 years in Africa.
I came across this:

https://blixen.dk/en/karen-blixen/karen-blixens-life/karen-blixens-time-in-africa

Apparently the Blixen family invested and lost the equivalent of 100 million DKK (about 14 million USD) in today’s money. This seems like an extraordinary sum, even if the farm produced zero revenue.

Anyway - the first seemingly authoritative comment I’ve ever seen on the subject.

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Re: Karen Blixen [Re: mckinney]
      #389927 - 24/02/25 05:10 AM

I read it was about 100,000 pounds or dollars. A lot of money in the 1910s.

I don't believe the $14 million. Even given a hundred years of inflation.

Karen Blixem spent madly though. She used to go to Paris to buy a wardrobe of clothes from the topnfashion designers. This is alluded to in the movie "Out of Africs", her chic outfit.

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