Tutored at home by a series of governesses, Dinesen showed early artistic promise and as a teenager studied drawing, painting, and languages at a private school in France. suddenly one was pushed into the foremost row of life, bereft of the joy and irresponsibility of childhood." Dinesen's brother Thomas, with whom she remained close as an adult, later speculated that their father had suffered from syphilis, a disease that Dinesen herself would contract years later. the desolate feeling that there was no one to remember the talks on Ewald's Hill. His death was for me a great sorrow, of a kind which probably only children feel," she wrote in Daguerreotypes and Other Essays. According to Parmenia Migel in Titania: The Biography of Isak Dinesen, Dinesen later reflected: "It was as if a part of oneself had also died. Dinesen had always been very close to her father, and his suicide was a shock. In 1895 her father, Wilhelm, hung himself. She led a happy childhood until tragedy shattered her comfortable existence. Born Christenze Dinesen on April 17, 1885, in Rungsted, Denmark, in a seaside house once inhabited by Johannes Ewald (1743-1781), Dinesen was widely considered Denmark's greatest lyric poet.
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