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Johanna Spyri

Died in 1901

Johanna Spyri was born on 12 June 1827 in Hirzel, in the uplands of the canton of Zurich, daughter of Meta Heusser, who wrote poems. In 1852 she married the lawyer Bernhard Spyri, who became town clerk of Zurich in 1868. She published her first story, a text of edification, only in the early 1870s, past the age of forty; her stories for children and for those who love them were then collected in sixteen volumes from 1877. She died in Zurich on 7 July 1901.

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