Fairy Spell by Marc Tyler Nobleman5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() An inviting layout combines Wheeler’s delicately styled ink-and-watercolor illustrations with archival images of the girls’ photographs and an excerpt from Doyle’s article. Some readers saw it as a historic discovery, others thought the photos were fake.” Silent on the subject for decades, the two women later confessed their deception, albeit leaving one mysterious photo up for debate. Cousins Frances Griffiths and Elise Wright copied elaborate drawings of female dancers in flowing garb from a book, then photographed themselves outdoors with these “sprites.” After Doyle published the photos, alongside his article about fairies, in a popular magazine, “everyone was aflutter. Nobleman ( Boys of Steel) resurrects the story of an early 20th-century hoax that pulled the wool over the eyes of many Britons, including Arthur Conan Doyle. ![]()
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