![]() ![]() Alone, she devoted herself to charitable causes and wrote over fifty more stories before her death in 1901. Her husband and her only child, both named Bernhard, both died in 1884. ![]() Heidi tells the story of an orphan girl who lives with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps, and is famous for its vivid portrayal of the landscape. Her first story, A Leaf on Vrony's Grave, which deals with a woman's life of domestic violence, was published in 1880 the following year further stories for both adults and children appeared, among them the novel Heidi, which she wrote in four weeks. ![]() Whilst living in the city of Zürich she began to write about life in the country. In 1852, Johanna Heusser married Bernhard Spyri. Born in Hirzel, a rural area in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers near Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels. Johanna Louise Spyri (née Heusser 12 June 1827 – 7 July 1901) was a Swiss author of novels, notably children's stories, and is best known for her book Heidi. ![]()
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