But while the setting is her farm in Kenya, the focus of the book is often not on her. Out of Africa is often referred to as Dinesen’s memoir of her time in Kenya. She returned alone to Denmark in 1931 where she spent the rest of her life. Karen remained on the farm until grasshoppers, drought and the Depression forced her to sell. She became romantically involved with Denys Finch-Hatton after her divorce. The marriage was not successful (he was a philanderer and gave her syphilis), and they separated in 1921. With the backing of their families they bought land and started a coffee plantation. Born Karen Dinesen in Denmark in 1885, she and Baron Blor Blixen-Finecke relocated to British East Africa (to what is today the country of Kenya) and were married in Mombasa in 1914. Karen Blixen (or more formally Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke) published in English under the pen name Isak Dinesen.
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