“The remarkable, true story of a fairy hoax successfully perpetrated by two young girls in the early 1900s offers a fascinating examination of human nature.” She never meant to bamboozle him! She and her cousin Frances only took the photos so their parents would stop teasing! It began after Frances told the grownups about the fairies, real fairies, she’d seen How can she tell the creator of the world’s most famous detective that the fairies in the photographs are cardboard cutouts? “I have seen the wonderful pictures of fairies which you and your cousin Frances have taken, and I have not been so interested for a long time,” the great man writes. It’s from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The only thing she’s ever been good at is art. The Fairy Ring, Or Elsie and Frances Fool the WorldĮlsie is a terrible speller and hates school.
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