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Heidi
About the Story
Swiss author Johanna Louise Heusser Spyri (1827-1901) is best known for her novel Heidi, which has become a children’s classic in English and Swiss literature. She married Bernhard Spyri, a lawyer, in 1852, and the couple settled in Zurich. In Zurich, Spyri wrote Heidi in just four weeks and the novel was published in 1881. Spyri suffered the death of both her husband and her only child, Bernard, in 1884. Over the course of her life, Spyri wrote more than 50 stories and engaged in numerous charitable causes.
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