I was born in Denmark and I remember Karen Blixen as an old eccentric women. I was fascinated to learn about her early life, and life in Kenya, she was quite an adventurer. I have been to her birth home, which is now a museum, located north of Copenhagen, on the coast, Rungsted. I think Meryl Streep did great portraying her. She even pronounces Klampenborg right, which is a suburb north of Copenhagen, I use to live in the suburb just next to Klampenborg.
Wonderful..thank you for sharing. American, but my mother's family is from Copenhagen, would love to visit your fine city one day. She was so happy to finally see it for the first time at age 77:)
Truman Capote makes kind mention of Blixen in his last published collection of writing (in his lifetime) Music For Chameleons. You can tell he admired her; her eccentricity in old age was her charm.
So she just married her husband because she wanted to get away? No wonder they ended up divorced. But she got to experience Africa and found love there.
Think you need to understand marriages at the time far more, particularly with a view on how life was horrendously restrictive towards women in the western world was then. Religion etc.
Back then, people, especially rich and high society people married each other for money and high social status. They didn’t get married for love. Marrying for love is a more recent idea in the world. In fact, daughters were not allowed to marry poor men. Why? Because back then women had no rights and society looked down on women, a woman’s place was considered to be in the home. And the only way a woman had a guarantee of being taken care of financially during her lifetime is if she married for money. Only the poor worked and poor women only worked if they had to out of necessity because society didn’t like women working. Women were controlled completely by men and laws written and unwritten back then. Men thought women belonged at home as wives and mothers, believed that it was in their nature. It was considered bad, strange and highly unusual if women (rich or poor) worked back then.
I was born in Denmark and I remember Karen Blixen as an old eccentric women. I was fascinated to learn about her early life, and life in Kenya, she was quite an adventurer. I have been to her birth home, which is now a museum, located north of Copenhagen, on the coast, Rungsted. I think Meryl Streep did great portraying her. She even pronounces Klampenborg right, which is a suburb north of Copenhagen, I use to live in the suburb just next to Klampenborg.
Wonderful..thank you for sharing. American, but my mother's family is from Copenhagen, would love to visit your fine city one day. She was so happy to finally see it for the first time at age 77:)
Truman Capote makes kind mention of Blixen in his last published collection of writing (in his lifetime) Music For Chameleons. You can tell he admired her; her eccentricity in old age was her charm.
"I had a farm in Ahfrica..'
I do really love these film from Meryl Streep.I had a farm in Africa ❤❤❤
So she just married her husband because she wanted to get away? No wonder they ended up divorced. But she got to experience Africa and found love there.
Think you need to understand marriages at the time far more, particularly with a view on how life was horrendously restrictive towards women in the western world was then. Religion etc.
Back then, people, especially rich and high society people married each other for money and high social status. They didn’t get married for love. Marrying for love is a more recent idea in the world. In fact, daughters were not allowed to marry poor men. Why? Because back then women had no rights and society looked down on women, a woman’s place was considered to be in the home. And the only way a woman had a guarantee of being taken care of financially during her lifetime is if she married for money. Only the poor worked and poor women only worked if they had to out of necessity because society didn’t like women working. Women were controlled completely by men and laws written and unwritten back then. Men thought women belonged at home as wives and mothers, believed that it was in their nature. It was considered bad, strange and highly unusual if women (rich or poor) worked back then.
I didn't know danish people spoke English good films nevertheless
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text the natives i want the hollywood sign removed permanently
Meryl sounds like a gay man in this movie !