Johanna spyri death

She wrote the popular book Heidi. In , Johanna Heusser married a lawyer named Bernhard Spyri. Her first story, "A Leaf on Vrony's Grave", [ 1 ] which deals with a woman's life of domestic violence , was published in ; the following years further stories for both adults and children appeared, among them the novel Heidi , which she wrote in four weeks only.

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. Spyri's husband and her only child, both named Bernhard, both died in Alone, she devoted herself to charitable causes and wrote over fifty more stories before her death in An icon in Switzerland, Spyri's portrait was placed on a postage stamp in and on a 20 CHF commemorative coin in In April a professor searching for children's illustrations found a book written in by a German history teacher, Hermann Adam von Kamp , that Spyri may have used as a basis for Heidi.

The two stories were alleged to share many similarities in plot line and imagery. Spyri biographer Regine Schindler said it was entirely possible that Johanna may have been familiar with the story as she grew up in a literate household with many books. Her books were originally written in German.

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