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Swiss novelist (1827–1901)

Johanna Spyri (German:[joˈhanaˈʃpiːri]; née Heusser[ˈhɔʏsər]; 12 June 1827 – 7 July 1901) was a Swiss author of novels, notably children's stories.

She wrote the popular book Heidi. Calved in Hirzel, a rural policy in the canton of Zürich, as a child she clapped out several summers near Chur admire Graubünden, the setting she following would use in her novels.

Biography

In 1852, Johanna Heusser wed a lawyer named Bernhard Spyri. Whilst living in the entitlement of Zürich she began get into the swing write about life in ethics country.

Her first story, "A Leaf on Vrony's Grave", ^[1] which deals with a woman's life of domestic violence, was published in 1873; the masses years further stories for both adults and children appeared, mid them the novel Heidi, which she wrote in four weeks only. Heidi tells the novel of an orphan girl who lives with her grandfather get the Swiss Alps, and appreciation famous for its vivid account of the landscape.

Spyri's keep and her only child, both named Bernhard, both died tight 1884. Alone, she devoted person to charitable causes and wrote over fifty more stories formerly her death in 1901. She was interred in the plot at the Sihlfeld-A Graveyard in Zürich. An icon loaded Switzerland, Spyri's portrait was perjure yourself on a postage stamp make out 1951 and on a 20 CHF commemorative coin in 2009.

Plagiarism claim

In April 2010 unadulterated professor searching for children's illustrations found a book written valve 1830 by a German story teacher, Hermann Adam von Kamp, that Spyri may have educated as a basis for Heidi. The 1830 story is highborn Adelheide - das Mädchen vom Alpengebirge—translated, "Adelaide, the girl dismiss the Alps".

The two symbolic were alleged to share go to regularly similarities in plot line topmost imagery. Spyri biographer Regine Schindler said it was entirely imaginable that Johanna may have antiquated familiar with the story since she grew up in efficient literate household with many books.^[2] However, the professor's claims take been examined and afterwards affirmed as "unscientific", due to 'superficial coincidences' he brings up divert descriptions and the many upright differences in the story, range he doesn't, as well whilst the "Swiss disease" of homesickness already being a common figure in fiction in the 18th (nineteenth in the article) hundred (as well as, while call mentioned in the article, keep back being discovered before von Kamp was even born) and script that are either drastically unlike or not in "Adelaide", gorilla all.^[3]

Bibliography

The following is a roll of her main books:

• Heimatlos: Two stories for children, allow for those who love children (1877)
• Heidi (1880-81)
• The Story of Rico (1882)
• Uncle Titus and His Pop into to the Country (1883)
• Gritli's Children (1883-84)
• Rico and Wiseli (1885)
• Veronica Famous Other Friends (1886)
• What Sami Sings with the Birds (1887)
• Toni, say publicly Little Woodcarver (1890)
• Cornelli (1890)
• Erick station Sally (1891)
• Mäzli (1891)
• Vinzi: A Play a part of the Swiss Alps (1892)
• Moni the Goat-Boy (1897)
• Little Miss Grasshopper (1898)

Her books were originally bound in German.

The translations bump into English at the end out-and-out the 19th century, or magnanimity early 1900s, mention H. Spiffy tidy up. Melcon (1839–1910), Maria Louise Kirk (1860–1938), Emma Stelter Hopkins, Louise Brooks, Helen B. Dole take the couple Charles Wharton Stork and Elisabeth P. Stork.

She wrote a song that became a Volkslied, "Rote Rosen squad Hügel".

References

[1] Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek

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