Heimatlos johanna spyri biography

Johanna Heusser had three brothers and three sisters, but one brother died as a small child. Johanna Heusser grew up in a sheltered upper class family environment, but also deeply rooted in a small rural community. At the age of 14 she was sent to the city of Zurich, where she lived with her aunt and could attend a high school. Two years later, she was sent to a residential school in the French-speaking city of Yverdon, western Switzerland - a typical choice for an upper class Swiss family at the time.
After graduation she returned home, helped her mother, taught her little siblings and read a lot. Politically, these years were quite turbulent in Switzerland with a short civil war between conservatives and liberals in followed by the foundation of a modern, democratic, federal national state with national parliament and government replacing a loose confederacy of small territories. Seen on this background, staying in Hirzel with her parents might have been a choice for safety.

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Johanna Spyri

Swiss novelist (–)

Johanna Spyri
Johanna Spyri,
Born	Johanna Louise Heusser ()12 June Hirzel, Switzerland
Died	7 July () (aged&#;74) Zürich, Switzerland
Occupation	Short story writer, novelist
Genre	Children's literature, adult literature
Notable works	Heidi

Johanna Spyri (German:[joˈhanaˈʃpiːri]; née&#;Heusser[ˈhɔʏsər]; 12 June &#; 7 July ) was a Swiss author of novels, notably children's stories. She wrote the popular book Heidi. Born in Hirzel, a rural area in the canton of Zürich, as a child she spent several summers near Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels.

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In , Johanna Heusser married a lawyer named Bernhard Spyri. Whilst living in the city of Zürich she began to write about life in the country. 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,