Johanna Spyri
Johanna Spyri (1827-1901), a lifelong resident of Switzerland, began to write stories to earn money for refugees from the Franco-Prussian War. Heidi, her first novel, was also her most successful, though she wrote many other children's books. Spyri's firm belief in the natural innocence of children and their ability to grow up into decent, caring adults if left to their own devices was remarkably similar to that of her Danish contemporary, Hans Christian Andersen.
Every Girl's Library - 50 Classics in One Volume - The Greatest Novels & Stories for Young Women Including the Biographies of the Most Famous Defiant and Influential Women in History
Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Jules Verne, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, L. Frank Baum, Mark Twain, Hans Christian Andersen, Jean Webster, Eleanor H. Porter, George MacDonald, E. Nesbit, Johanna Spyri, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Gene Stratton-Porter, Mary Mapes Dodge, L.T. Meade, Susan Coolidge, Martha Finley, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Susan Warner, Frances Hodgson Burnett, J. M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Carolyn Wells, Brothers Grimm, Selma Lagerlöf, Gertrude Chandler Warner, Madeleine l'Engle, Dorothy Canfield, Angela Brazil
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