The fairy illustrations from which Frances and Elsie based their cut-out figures, from “A Spell for a Fairy” by Alfred Noyes, published in Princess Mary’s Gift Book (1915).
Featured on PDR in the essay Sir Arthur and the Fairies
In the spring of 1920, at the beginning of a growing fascination with spiritualism brought on by the death of his son and brother in WWI, Arthur Conan Doyle took up the case of the Cottingley Fairies. Mary Losure explores how the creator of Sherlock Holmes became convinced that the 'fairy photographs' taken by two girls from Yorkshire were real.
Also appearing in the essay…
Illustration for Alfred Noyes' “A Spell for a Fairy”
Artist
Date
1915
From
Princess Mary’s Gift Book
