![]() ![]() ![]() The first Heidi novel, Heidi’s Lehr- Und Wanderjahre (Heidi's Apprenticeship Years) - came out in 1880 and it was only in response to popular demand that she wrote the follow-up, Heidi Kan Brauchen Was Es Gelernt Hat (Heidi Uses What She Has Learned) - which was published the following year. ![]() It was not until she was 53 that she wrote her signature book Heidi. Here she started to write about the countryside she had left behind, her first story A Leaf of Vrony’s Grave appearing anonymously in 1871 followed by a series of short stories. “I would rather be with my grandfather on Alp than anywhere on earth.”īorn in Hirzel, a rural village in Switzerland, Johanna Heusser married Johann Spryri when she was 25 and moved to Zurich. ![]()
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