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In 1917, when the first two photographs were taken, Elsie was 16 years old and Frances was 9. The pictures came to the attention of writer Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], who used them to illustrate an article on [[fairy|fairies]] he had been commissioned to write for the Christmas 1920 edition of ''[[The Strand Magazine]]''. Doyle, as a [[Spiritualism (religious movement)|spiritualist]], was enthusiastic about the photographs, and interpreted them as clear and visible evidence of [[psychic]] phenomena. Public reaction was mixed; some accepted the images as genuine, others believed that they had been faked. Interest in the Cottingley Fairies gradually declined after 1921. Both girls married and lived abroad for a time after they grew up, and yet the photographs continued to hold the public imagination. In 1966 a reporter from the ''[[Daily Express]]'' newspaper traced Elsie, who had by then returned to the United Kingdom. Elsie left open the possibility that she believed she had photographed her thoughts, and the media once again became interested in the story. In the early 1980s Elsie and Frances admitted that the photographs were faked, using cardboard cutouts of fairies copied from a popular children's book of the time, but Frances maintained that the fifth and final photograph was genuine. As of 2019 the photographs and the cameras used are in the collections of the [[National Science and Media Museum]] in [[Bradford]], England. ==1917 photographs== [[File:CottingleyBeck.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=Photo|Cottingley Beck, where Frances and Elsie claimed to have seen the fairies]] In mid-1917 nine-year-old Frances Griffiths and her mother{{snd}}both newly arrived in the UK from South Africa{{snd}}were staying with Frances's aunt, Elsie Wright's mother, Polly, in the village of [[Cottingley, Bradford|Cottingley]] in West Yorkshire; Elsie was then 16 years old. The two girls often played together beside the [[beck (stream)|beck]] at the bottom of the garden, much to their mothers' annoyance, because they frequently came back with wet feet and clothes. Frances and Elsie said they only went to the beck to see the fairies, and to prove it, Elsie borrowed her father's camera, a Midg [[Film format#Still photography film formats|quarter-plate]]. The girls returned about 30&nbsp;minutes later, "triumphant".{{sfnp|Magnusson|2006|pp=97–98|ps=none}} Elsie's father, Arthur, was a keen amateur photographer, and had set up his own darkroom. The picture on the [[photographic plate]] he developed showed Frances behind a bush in the foreground, on which four fairies appeared to be dancing. Knowing his daughter's artistic ability, and that she had spent some time working in a photographer's studio, he dismissed the figures as cardboard cutouts. Two months later the girls borrowed his camera again, and this time returned with a photograph of Elsie sitting on the lawn holding out her hand to a {{convert|1|ft|cm|adj=on|disp=x|-tall (|)}} gnome. Exasperated by what he believed to be "nothing but a prank",{{sfnp|Magnusson|2006|p=97|ps=none}} and convinced that the girls must have tampered with his camera in some way, Arthur Wright refused to lend it to them again.{{sfnp|Prashad|2008|p=42|ps=none}} His wife Polly, however, believed the photographs to be authentic.{{sfnp|Magnusson|2006|p=97|ps=none}} {{Quote box |width=25em |align=right |quoted=true |bgcolor=#FFFFF0 |salign=left |quote=I am learning French, Geometry, Cookery and Algebra at school now. Dad came home from France the other week after being there ten months, and we all think the war will be over in a few days&nbsp;... I am sending two photos, both of me, one of me in a bathing costume in our back yard, while the other is me with some fairies. Elsie took that one.|source=Letter from Frances Griffiths to a friend in South Africa{{sfnp|Prashad|2008|p=40|ps=none}}}} Towards the end of 1918, Frances sent a letter to Johanna Parvin, a friend in [[Cape Town]], South Africa, where Frances had lived for most of her life, enclosing the photograph of herself with the fairies. On the back she wrote "It is funny, I never used to see them in Africa. It must be too hot for them there."{{sfnp|Prashad|2008|p=40|ps=none}} The photographs became public in mid-1919, after Elsie's mother attended a meeting of the [[Theosophical Society]] in Bradford. The lecture that evening was on "fairy life", and at the end of the meeting Polly Wright showed the two fairy photographs taken by her daughter and niece to the speaker.<ref>{{cite web | title=Episode 229: A Glamour and a Mystery (7.28.2023) | website=Criminal | date=July 28, 2023 | url=https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-229-a-glamour-and-a-mystery-7-28-2023/ | access-date=August 3, 2023}}</ref> As a result, the photographs were displayed at the society's annual conference in [[Harrogate]], held a few months later. There they came to the attention of a leading member of the society, Edward Gardner.{{sfnp|Magnusson|2006|pp=98–99|ps=none}} One of the central [[Theosophy#Beliefs and teachings|beliefs of theosophy]] is that humanity is undergoing a cycle of evolution, towards increasing "perfection", and Gardner recognised the potential significance of the photographs for the movement: {{blockquote| the fact that two young girls had not only been able to see fairies, which others had done, but had actually for the first time ever been able to materialise them at a density sufficient for their images to be recorded on a photographic plate, meant that it was possible that the next cycle of evolution was underway.{{sfnp|Smith|1997|p=382|ps=none}}}} ==Initial examinations== Gardner sent the prints along with the original glass-plate negatives to Harold Snelling, a photography expert. Snelling's opinion was that "the two negatives are entirely genuine, unfaked photographs&nbsp;... [with] no trace whatsoever of studio work involving card or paper models".{{sfnp|Magnusson|2006|p=99|ps=none}} He did not go so far as to say that the photographs showed fairies, stating only that "these are straight forward photographs of whatever was in front of the camera at the time".{{sfnp|Smith|1997|p=389|ps=none}} Gardner had the prints "clarified" by Snelling, and new negatives produced, "more conducive to printing",{{sfnp|Magnusson|2006|pp=98–99|ps=none}}{{sfnp|Smith|1997|p=382|ps=none}} for use in the illustrated lectures he gave around the UK.{{sfnp|Smith|1997|p=382|ps=none}} Snelling supplied the photographic prints which were available for sale at Gardner's lectures.{{sfnp|Smith|1997|p=401|ps=none}}<ref name=crawley/> [[File:CottingleyFairies2.jpg|thumb|upright|left|alt=Photo|The second of the five photographs, showing Elsie with a winged gnome]] Author and prominent [[Spiritualism (religious movement)|spiritualist]] Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] learned of the photographs from the editor of the spiritualist publication ''Light''.{{sfnp|Smith|1997|p=383|ps=none}} Doyle had been commissioned by ''[[The Strand Magazine]]'' to write an article on fairies for their Christmas issue, and the fairy photographs "must have seemed like a godsend" according to broadcaster and historian [[Magnus Magnusson]]. Doyle contacted Gardner in June 1920 to determine the background to the photographs, and wrote to Elsie and her father to request permission from the latter to use the prints in his article. Arthur Wright was "obviously impressed" that Doyle was involved, and gave his permission for publication, but he refused payment on the grounds that, if genuine, the images should not be "soiled" by money.{{sfnp|Magnusson|2006|pp=99–100|ps=none}} Gardner and Doyle sought a second expert opinion from the photographic company [[Eastman Kodak|Kodak]]. Several of the company's technicians examined the enhanced prints, and although they agreed with Snelling that the pictures "showed no signs of being faked", they concluded that "this could not be taken as conclusive evidence&nbsp;... that they were authentic photographs of fairies".{{sfnp|Smith|1997|p=384|ps=none}} Kodak declined to issue a certificate of authenticity.{{sfnp|Magnusson|2006|p=101|ps=none}} Gardner believed that the Kodak technicians might not have examined the photographs entirely objectively, observing that one had commented "after all, as fairies couldn't be true, the photographs must have been faked somehow".{{sfnp|Smith|1997|p=385|ps=none}} The prints were also examined by another photographic company, [[Ilford Photo|Ilford]], who reported unequivocally that there was "some evidence of faking".{{sfnp|Smith|1997|p=385|ps=none}} Gardner and Doyle, perhaps rather optimistically, interpreted the results of the three expert evaluations as two in favour of the photographs' authenticity and one against.{{sfnp|Smith|1997|p=385|ps=none}} Doyle also showed the photographs to the [[physicist]] and pioneering [[parapsychology|psychical researcher]] [[Sir Oliver Lodge]], who believed the photographs to be fake. He suggested that a troupe of dancers had masqueraded as fairies, and expressed doubt as to their "distinctly 'Parisienne{{'"}} hairstyles.{{sfnp|Magnusson|2006|p=101|ps=none}} On 4 October 2018 the first two of the photographs, ''Alice and the Fairies'' and ''Iris and the Gnome,'' were to be sold by Dominic Winter Auctioneers, in [[Gloucestershire]]. The prints, suspected to have been made in 1920 to sell at [[Theosophy (Boehmian)|theosophical]] lectures, were expected to bring £700–£1000 each.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hester |first1=Jessica Leigh |title=For Sale: Legendary Photographic 'Proof' of Fairies and Gnomes |website=[[Atlas Obscura]] |date=28 September 2018 |url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cottingley-fairies-photographs-for-sale|access-date=3 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003175451/https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cottingley-fairies-photographs-for-sale?ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_10_2_2018)&mc_cid=d153f00e17&mc_eid=9f3ca0a886 |archive-date=3 October 2018}}</ref> As it turned out, ''Iris with the Gnome'' sold for a [[hammer price]] of £5,400 (plus 24% [[buyer's premium]] incl. VAT), while ''Alice and the Fairies'' sold for a hammer price of £15,000 (plus 24% buyer's premium incl. VAT).<ref>Dominic Winter Auctioneer website, Sale Results, retrieved 26 March 2019.</ref> ==1920 photographs== Doyle was preoccupied with organising an imminent lecture tour of Australia, and in July 1920, sent Gardner to meet the Wright family. By this point, Frances was living with her parents in [[Scarborough, North Yorkshire|Scarborough]],{{sfnp|Smith|1997|p=385|ps=none}} but Elsie's father told Gardner that he had been so certain the photographs were fakes that while the girls were away he searched their bedroom and the area around the beck (stream), looking for scraps of pictures or cutouts, but found nothing "incriminating".{{sfnp|Magnusson|2006|p=102|ps=none}} [[File:CottingleyFairies3.jpg|thumb|left|upright|alt=Photo|''Frances and the Leaping Fairy'', the third photograph]] Gardner believed the Wright family to be honest and respectable. To place the matter of the photographs' authenticity beyond doubt, he returned to Cottingley at the end of July with two W. Butcher & Sons Cameo folding plate cameras and 24&nbsp;secretly marked photographic plates. Frances was invited to stay with the Wright family during the school summer holiday so that she and Elsie could take more pictures of the fairies.{{sfnp|Magnusson|2006|p=102|ps=none}} Gardner described his briefing in his 1945 ''Fairies: A Book of Real Fairies'': {{blockquote|I went off, to Cottingley again, taking the two cameras and plates from London, and met the family and explained to the two girls the simple working of the cameras, giving one each to keep. The cameras were loaded, and my final advice was that they need go up to the glen only on fine days as they had been accustomed to do before and ''tice'' the fairies, as they called their way of attracting them, and see what they could get. I suggested only the most obvious and easy precautions about lighting and distance, for I knew it was essential they should feel free and unhampered and have no burden of responsibility. If nothing came of it all, I told them, they were not to mind a bit.<ref name=Cooper/>}} Until 19 August the weather was unsuitable for photography. Because Frances and Elsie insisted that the fairies would not show themselves if others were watching, Elsie's mother was persuaded to visit her sister's for tea, leaving the girls alone. In her absence the girls took several photographs, two of which appeared to show fairies. In the first, ''Frances and the Leaping Fairy'', Frances is shown in profile with a winged fairy close by her nose. The second, ''Fairy offering Posy of [[Campanula rotundifolia|Harebells]] to Elsie'', shows a fairy either hovering or tiptoeing on a branch, and offering Elsie a flower. Two days later the girls took the last picture, ''Fairies and Their Sun-Bath''.{{sfnp|Magnusson|2006|pp=102–103|ps=none}} The plates were packed in cotton wool and returned to Gardner in London, who sent an "ecstatic" telegram to Doyle, by then in [[Melbourne]].{{sfnp|Magnusson|2006|p=103|ps=none}} Doyle wrote back: {{blockquote|My heart was gladdened when out here in far Australia I had your note and the three wonderful pictures which are confirmatory of our published results. When our fairies are admitted other psychic phenomena will find a more ready acceptance&nbsp;... We have had continued messages at seances for some time that a visible sign was coming through.{{sfnp|Magnusson|2006|p=103|ps=none}}}}{{clear}} ==Publication and reaction== [[File:Cottingley Fairies, page 463, The Strand Magazine - 1920 - Vol.Jul-Dec.jpg|thumb|alt=Photo|The first page of Doyle's article in Strand Magazine]] [[File:CottingleyFairies4.jpg|thumb|left|upright|alt=Photo|The fourth photograph, ''Fairy Offering Posy of Harebells to Elsie'']] Doyle's article<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Doyle |first1=A. Conan |title=Fairies Photographed |journal=[[Strand Magazine]] |date=December 1920 |volume=60 |issue=12 |pages=462–468 |url=https://archive.org/stream/TheStrandMagazineAnIllustratedMonthly/TheStrandMagazine1920bVol.LxJul-dec#page/n483/mode/2up |access-date=6 July 2021 |ref=doil2012}}</ref> in the December 1920 issue of ''The Strand'' contained two higher-resolution prints of the 1917 photographs, and sold out within days of publication. To protect the girls' anonymity, Frances and Elsie were called Alice and Iris respectively, and the Wright family was referred to as the "Carpenters".{{sfnp|Smith|1997|p=388|ps=none}} An enthusiastic and committed spiritualist, Doyle hoped that if the photographs convinced the public of the existence of fairies then they might more readily accept other psychic phenomena.<ref name=Roden>{{cite web |last=Roden |first=Barbara |title=The Coming of the Fairies: An Alternative View of the Episode of the Cottingley Fairies |url=http://www.ash-tree.bc.ca/acdsfairies.htm |publisher=The Arthur Conan Doyle Society |access-date=25 April 2010 |mode=cs2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100917124859/http://ash-tree.bc.ca/acdsfairies.htm |archive-date=17 September 2010 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> He ended his article with the words: {{blockquote|The recognition of their existence will jolt the material twentieth-century mind out of its heavy ruts in the mud, and will make it admit that there is a glamour and mystery to life. Having discovered this, the world will not find it so difficult to accept that spiritual message supported by physical facts which have already been put before it.<ref name=Roden/>}} Early press coverage was "mixed",{{sfnp|Smith|1997|p=390|ps=none}} generally a combination of "embarrassment and puzzlement";{{sfnp|Smith|1997|p=391|ps=none}} though Japanese scholar Kaori Inuma has noted that there were also open and positive assessments.<ref>“Fairies to Be Photographed!: Press Reactions in ‘Scrapbooks’ to the Cottingley Fairies,” ''Correspondence: Hitotsubashi Journal of Arts and Literature'' 4 (2019), 53-84.</ref> The historical novelist and poet [[Maurice Hewlett]] published a series of articles in the literary journal ''John O' London's Weekly'', in which he concluded: "And knowing children, and knowing that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has legs, I decide that the Miss Carpenters have pulled one of them."{{sfnp|Smith|1997|p=390|ps=none}} The London newspaper ''[[Truth (British periodical)|Truth]]'' on 5 January 1921 expressed a similar view; "For the true explanation of these fairy photographs what is wanted is not a knowledge of occult phenomena but a knowledge of children."<ref name=Cooper/> Some public figures were more sympathetic. [[Margaret McMillan]], the educational and social reformer, wrote: "How wonderful that to these dear children such a wonderful gift has been vouchsafed."{{sfnp|Smith|1997|p=390|ps=none}} The novelist [[Henry De Vere Stacpoole]] decided to take the fairy photographs and the girls at face value.<ref name=Cooper>{{cite journal |last=Cooper |first=Joe|title=Cottingley: At Last the Truth |journal=The Unexplained |year=1982 |issue=117 |pages=2, 338–340 |mode=cs2 }}</ref> In a letter to Gardner he wrote: "Look at Alice's [Frances'] face. Look at Iris's [Elsie's] face. There is an extraordinary thing called Truth which has 10&nbsp;million faces and forms&nbsp;– it is God's currency and the cleverest coiner or forger can't imitate it." [[John Hall-Edwards|Major John Hall-Edwards]], a keen photographer and pioneer of [[X-ray#Medical uses|medical X-ray treatments]] in Britain, was a particularly vigorous critic:<ref>{{cite web|title=Major John Hall-Edwards |url=http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/xray |publisher=Birmingham City Council |access-date=23 April 2010 |mode=cs2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120928204852/http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/xray |archive-date=28 September 2012 |df=dmy }}</ref> {{blockquote|On the evidence I have no hesitation in saying that these photographs could have been "faked". I criticize the attitude of those who declared there is something supernatural in the circumstances attending to the taking of these pictures because, as a medical man, I believe that the inculcation of such absurd ideas into the minds of children will result in later life in manifestations and nervous disorder and mental disturbances.<ref name=Cooper/>}} Doyle used the later photographs in 1921 to illustrate a second article in ''The Strand'', in which he described other accounts of fairy sightings. The article formed the foundation for his 1922 book ''The Coming of the Fairies''.{{sfnp|Smith|1997|p=389|ps=none}} As before, the photographs were received with mixed credulity. Sceptics noted that the fairies "looked suspiciously like the traditional fairies of nursery tales" and that they had "very fashionable hairstyles".<ref name=Cooper/> ==Gardner's final visit== Gardner made a final visit to Cottingley in August 1921. He again brought cameras and photographic plates for Frances and Elsie, but was accompanied by the occultist [[Geoffrey Hodson]]. Although neither of the girls claimed to see any fairies, and there were no more photographs, "on the contrary, he [Hodson] saw them [fairies] everywhere" and wrote voluminous notes on his observations.{{sfnp|Smith|1997|p=390|ps=none}} By now Elsie and Frances were tired of the whole fairy business. Years later Elsie looked at a photograph of herself and Frances taken with Hodson and said: "Look at that, fed up with fairies." Both Elsie and Frances later admitted that they "played along" with Hodson "out of mischief",{{sfnp|Magnusson|2006|p=105|ps=none}} and that they considered him "a fake".{{sfnp|Smith|1997|p=390|ps=none}} ==Later investigations== Public interest in the Cottingley Fairies gradually subsided after 1921. Elsie and Frances both eventually married, moved away from the area and each lived overseas for varying periods of time.{{sfnp|Smith|1997|p=393|ps=none}} In 1966, a reporter from the ''Daily Express'' newspaper traced Elsie, who was by then back in England. She admitted in an interview given that year that the fairies might have been "figments of my imagination", but left open the possibility she believed that she had somehow managed to photograph her thoughts.{{sfnp|Magnusson|2006|p=104|ps=none}} The media subsequently became interested in Frances and Elsie's photographs once again.<ref name=Cooper/> [[BBC]] television's ''[[Nationwide (TV series)|Nationwide]]'' programme investigated the case in 1971, but Elsie stuck to her story: "I've told you that they're photographs of figments of our imagination, and that's what I'm sticking to".{{sfnp|Magnusson|2006|p=104|ps=none}} Elsie and Frances were interviewed by journalist [[Austin Mitchell]] in September 1976, for a programme broadcast on [[Yorkshire Television]]. When pressed, both women agreed that "a rational person doesn't see fairies", but they denied having fabricated the photographs.{{sfnp|Magnusson|2006|p=105|ps=none}} In 1978 the magician and [[scientific skepticism|scientific sceptic]] [[James Randi]] and a team from the [[Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal]] examined the photographs, using a "computer enhancement process". They concluded that the photographs were fakes, and that strings could be seen supporting the fairies.{{sfnp|Smith|1997|pp=394–395|ps=none}} [[Geoffrey Crawley]], editor of the ''[[British Journal of Photography]]'', undertook a "major scientific investigation of the photographs and the events surrounding them", published between 1982 and 1983, "the first major postwar analysis of the affair". He also concluded that the pictures were fakes.{{sfnp|Smith|1997|p=395|ps=none}} ==Confession== [[File:Cottingley fairies illustration.jpg|alt=One of Claude Arthur Shepperson's illustrations of dancing girls, from Princess Mary's Gift Book|thumb|One of Claude Arthur Shepperson's illustrations of dancing girls, from ''Princess Mary's Gift Book'']] In 1983, the cousins admitted in an article published in the magazine ''[[The Unexplained (magazine)|The Unexplained]]'' that the photographs had been faked, although both maintained that they really had seen fairies. Elsie had copied illustrations of dancing girls from a popular children's book of the time, ''Princess Mary's Gift Book'', published in 1914, and drew wings on them.<ref name="World of Strange Powers">"Fairies, Phantoms, and Fantastic Photographs". Presenter: [[Arthur C. Clarke]]. Narrator: [[Anna Ford]]. ''[[Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers]]''. [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]. 22 May 1985. No. 6, season 1</ref> They said they had then cut out the cardboard figures and supported them with [[hatpin]]s, disposing of their props in the beck once the photograph had been taken.{{sfnp|Magnusson|2006|p=105|ps=none}} But the cousins disagreed about the fifth and final photograph, which Doyle in his ''The Coming of the Fairies'' described in this way: {{blockquote|Seated on the upper left hand edge with wing well displayed is an undraped fairy apparently considering whether it is time to get up. An earlier riser of more mature age is seen on the right possessing abundant hair and wonderful wings. Her slightly denser body can be glimpsed within her fairy dress.{{sfnp|Doyle|2006|p=103|ps=none}}}} [[File:Cottingley-sunbath.jpg|left|thumb|alt=Photograph|''Fairies and Their Sun-Bath'', the fifth and last photograph of the Cottingley Fairies]] [[File:CottingleyFairies-PrincessMary2 gobeirne.png|right|thumb|Comparison of Cottingley Fairies and illustrations from ''Princess Mary's Gift Book'']] Elsie maintained it was a fake, just like all the others, but Frances insisted that it was genuine. In an interview given in the early 1980s Frances said: {{blockquote|It was a wet Saturday afternoon and we were just mooching about with our cameras and Elsie had nothing prepared. I saw these fairies building up in the grasses and just aimed the camera and took a photograph.<ref name=Cooper/>}} Both Frances and Elsie claimed to have taken the fifth photograph.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hewson |first=David |title=Secrets of Two Famous Hoaxers |date=4 April 1983 |newspaper=The Times |url=http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1983-04-04-03-004&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1983-04-04-03 |access-date=26 April 2010 |mode=cs2 }}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> In a letter published in ''[[The Times]]'' newspaper on 9 April 1983, Geoffrey Crawley explained the discrepancy by suggesting that the photograph was "an unintended [[double exposure]] of fairy cutouts in the grass", and thus "both ladies can be quite sincere in believing that they each took it".<ref name=crawley>{{cite web |last=Crawley |first=Geoffrey |title=More to Discover about Fairies |url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/643/561/106140179w16/purl=rc1_TTDA_0_CS119245961&dyn=29!xrn_2_0_CS119245961&hst_1?sw_aep=mclib |access-date=26 April 2010 |mode=cs2 }} {{subscription required}}</ref> In a 1985 interview on [[Yorkshire Television]]'s ''[[Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers]]'', Elsie said that she and Frances were too embarrassed to admit the truth after fooling Doyle, the author of [[Sherlock Holmes]]: "Two village kids and a brilliant man like Conan Doyle&nbsp;– well, we could only keep quiet." In the same interview Frances said: "I never even thought of it as being a fraud&nbsp;– it was just Elsie and I having a bit of fun and I can't understand to this day why they were taken in&nbsp;– they wanted to be taken in."<ref name="World of Strange Powers" />{{clear}} ==Subsequent history== [[File:FrancesGriffithsandElsieWright.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.5|Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, June 1917]] Frances died in 1986, and Elsie in 1988.{{sfnp|Magnusson|2006|p=105|ps=none}} Prints of their photographs of the fairies, along with a few other items including a first edition of Doyle's book ''The Coming of the Fairies'', were sold at auction in London for £21,620 in 1998.<ref>{{cite news |title='Fairy' fakes sell for fortune |work=BBC News |date=16 July 1998 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/134243.stm |access-date=11 May 2007 |mode=cs2 }}</ref> That same year, Geoffrey Crawley sold his Cottingley Fairy material to the National Museum of Film, Photography and Television in Bradford (now the [[National Science and Media Museum]]), where it is on display. The collection included prints of the photographs, two of the cameras used by the girls, [[watercolour]]s of fairies painted by Elsie, and a nine-page letter from Elsie admitting to the hoax.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sorry, Mel – they're ours! |newspaper=Bradford Telegraph & Argus |date=16 April 1998 |url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/archive/1998/04/16/Bradford+District+Archive/8078013.Sorry__Mel___they_re_ours_/ |access-date=25 April 2010 |mode=cs2 }}</ref> The glass photographic plates were bought for £6,000 by an unnamed buyer at a London auction held in 2001.<ref>{{cite news |title='Fairy' pictures fetch £6,000 |work=BBC News |date=13 March 2001 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1218778.stm |access-date=11 May 2007 |mode=cs2 }}</ref> Frances's daughter, Christine Lynch, appeared in an episode of the television programme ''[[Antiques Roadshow]]'' in [[Belfast]], broadcast on [[BBC One]] in January 2009, with the photographs and one of the cameras given to the girls by Doyle. Christine told the expert, [[Paul Atterbury]], that she believed, as her mother had done, that the fairies in the fifth photograph were genuine. Atterbury estimated the value of the items at between £25,000 and £30,000.<ref>''[[Antiques Roadshow]]''. Presenter: [[Fiona Bruce]]. [[BBC One]]. 4 January 2009. No. 17, series 31</ref> The first edition of Frances's memoirs was published a few months later, under the title ''Reflections on the Cottingley Fairies''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cursed by the Fairies |url=http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/100031 |date=10 May 2009 |publisher=express.co.uk |access-date=22 April 2010 |mode=cs2 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120529211043/http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/100031 |archive-date=29 May 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The book contains correspondence, sometimes "bitter", between Elsie and Frances. In one letter, dated 1983, Frances wrote: {{blockquote|I hated those photographs from the age of 16 when Mr Gardner presented me with a bunch of flowers and wanted me to sit on the platform [at a Theosophical Society meeting] with him. I realised what I was in for if I did not keep myself hidden.<ref>{{cite news |last=Clayton |first=Emma |title=Cottingley Fairies Back in the Spotlight |date=14 July 2009 |newspaper=Bradford Telegraph & Argus |url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/4492364.Book_reveals_story_behind_the_Fairies/ |access-date=3 May 2010 |mode=cs2}}</ref>}} The 1997 films ''[[FairyTale: A True Story]]'' and ''[[Photographing Fairies]]'' were inspired by the events surrounding the Cottingley Fairies.<ref>{{cite news |last=Klein |first=Andy |title=Fairy, Fairy, Quite Contrary |newspaper=Phoenix New Times |date=23 October 1997 |url=http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1997-10-23/film/fairy-fairy-quite-contrary/ |access-date=22 April 2010 |mode=cs2 |archive-date=17 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317144624/http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1997-10-23/film/fairy-fairy-quite-contrary/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The photographs were parodied in a 1994 book written by [[Terry Jones]] and [[Brian Froud]], ''Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book''.{{sfnp|Ansley|2003|p=174|ps=none}} In [[A. J. Elwood]]'s 2021 novel, ''[[The Cottingley Cuckoo]]'', a series of letters were written soon after the Cottingley fairy photographs were published claiming further sightings of fairies and proof of their existence.<ref name=Clayton>{{cite news |last=Clayton |first=Emma |url=https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/19108689.cottingley-fairies-chilling-fantasy-novel/ |title=Cottingley Fairies in chilling fantasy novel |newspaper=[[Telegraph & Argus]] |date=23 February 2021 |access-date=16 June 2022}}</ref> In 2017 a further two fairy photographs were presented as evidence that the girls' parents were part of the conspiracy. Dating from 1917 and 1918, both photographs are poorly executed copies of two of the original fairy photographs. One was published in 1918 in ''[[The Sphere (newspaper)|The Sphere]]'' newspaper, which was before the originals had been seen by anyone outside the girls' immediate family.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Polidoro |first1=Massimo |author-link=Massimo Polidoro |title=The Conspiracy of the Fairies |journal=Skeptical Inquirer |date=1 December 2017 |volume=41 |pages=24–25 |mode=cs2}}</ref> In 2019, a print of the first of the five photographs sold for £1,050. A print of the second was also put up for sale but failed to sell as it did not meet its £500 reserve price. The pictures previously belonged to the [[George Vale Owen|Reverend George Vale Owen]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-50781521|title=Fake fairies photo print sells for £1,000|date=2019-12-13|access-date=2019-12-13|language=en-GB}}</ref> In December 2019, the third camera used to take the images was acquired by the National Science and Media Museum.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/about-us/press-office/museum-acquires-final-camera-cottingley-fairies-story|title=Museum acquires final camera in the Cottingley Fairies story|date=9 December 2019|access-date=31 August 2021|publisher=The National Science and Media Museum}}</ref> {{clear}} ==References== {{reflist|refs=}} ===Bibliography=== {{refbegin}} * {{citation |last=Ansley |first=William H. |contribution=Little, Big Girl: The Influence of the Alice Books and Other Works of Lewis Carroll on John Crowley's Novel ''Little Big, or The Fairies' Parliament'' |title=Snakes-Hands: The Fiction of John Crowley |editor1-last=Turner |editor1-first=Alice K. |editor2-last=Andre-Druissi |editor2-first=Michael |year=2003 |publisher=Cosmos Books |pages=165–203 |isbn=978-1-59224-051-7}} * {{citation |last=Doyle |first=Arthur Conan |title=The Coming of the Fairies |year=2006 |orig-year=1922 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-0-8032-6655-1}} * {{citation |last=Magnusson |first=Magnus |title=Fakers, Forgers & Phoneys |publisher=Mainstream Publishing |year=2006 |isbn=1-84596-190-0}} * {{citation |last=Prashad |first=Sukhadev |title=World Famous Supernatural Mysteries |year=2008 |publisher=Pustak Mahal |isbn=978-81-223-0559-3}} * {{citation |last=Smith |first=Paul |contribution=The Cottingley Fairies: The End of a Legend |editor-last=Narváez |editor-first=Peter |title=The Good People: New Fairylore Essays |year=1997 |pages=371–405 |publisher=The University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0-8131-0939-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DLmoKKkxAX0C&pg=PA371}} {{refend}} ==Further reading== * Bihet, Francesca (2013). "[http://eprints.chi.ac.uk/1167/ Sprites, spiritualists and sleuths: the intersecting ownership of transcendent proofs in the Cottingley Fairy Fraud]". In: Afterlife: 18th Postgraduate Religion and Theology Conference, 8–9 March 2013, University of Bristol. (Unpublished) * {{Skeptoid|id=4805|number=805|title=The Cottingley Fairies: Analysis of a Famous Hoax: The true and weird history of the two girls who fooled the world with their fairy photographs in 1917|date=November 9, 2021}} * {{citation |last1=Griffiths |first1=Frances Mary |last2=Lynch |first2=Christine |title=Reflections on the Cottingley Fairies |year=2009 |publisher=JMJ Publications |isbn=978-1-899228-06-5 |ref=none}} * Homer, Michael W. and Massimo Introvigne, 'The Recoming of the Fairies', ''Theosophical History'' 6 (1996), 59–76. * Inuma, Kaori “Fairies to Be Photographed!: Press Reactions in ‘Scrapbooks’ to the Cottingley Fairies,” ''Correspondence: Hitotsubashi Journal of Arts and Literature'' 4 (2019), 53–84. * {{citation |last1=Losure |first1=Mary |title=The Fairy Ring or Elsie and Frances Fool the World |year=2012 |publisher=Candlewick |isbn=978-0-7636-5670-6 |ref=none |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/fairyringorelsie0000losu }} * Maher, F. R., ''Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Secret of the Cottingley Fairies'' (NP, 2021), ISBN 1548818941. * Owen, Alex <nowiki>''</nowiki>Borderland Forms': Arthur Conan Doyle, Albion's Daughters, and the Politics of the Cottingley Fairies', ''History Workshop'' 38 (1994), 48–85. * {{citation |last1=Sanderson |first1=S.F. |title=The Cottingley Fairy Photographs: A Re-Appraisal of the Evidence |journal=Folklore |date=1973 |volume=84 |issue=Summer|pages=89–103 |doi=10.1080/0015587X.1973.9716501 }}, pp.&nbsp;89–103, {{ISSN|0015-587X}} * Sugg, Richard 'Cottingley Revisited', ''Fairy Investigation Society Newsletter'' 6 (2017), 19–25 == External links == {{Commons category|Cottingley fairies}} {{Wikisource|The Coming of the Fairies}} * [https://archive.org/details/comingoffairies00doylrich ''The Coming of the Fairies'']&nbsp;– scans of the original version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's book (1922) * [https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/47506 ''The Coming of the Fairies'']&nbsp; – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 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