In 1917, in Cottingley, England, a girl named Elsie took a picture of her younger cousin, Frances. Also in the photo was a group of fairies, fairies that the girls insisted were real. Through a remarkable set of circumstances, that photograph and the ones that followed came to be widely believed as evidence of real fairies. It was not until 1983 that the girls, then late in life, confessed that the Cottingley Fairies were a hoax. Their take is an extraordinary slice of history, from a time when anything in a photograph was assumed to be fact and it was possible to trick an eager public into believing something magical. Exquisitely illustrated with art and the original fairy photographs.
- ISBN10 0544699483
- ISBN13 9780544699489
- Publish Date 10 May 2018
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 22 August 2023
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Clarion Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 40
- Language English