Elsie Wright left open the possibility that she believed she had photographed her thoughts, and the media became interested in the story.
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13 Facts About Elsie Wright
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Frances and Elsie Wright said they only went to the beck to see the fairies, and to prove it, Elsie Wright borrowed her father's camera, a Midg quarter-plate.
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Elsie Wright's father, Arthur, was a keen amateur photographer, and had set up his own darkroom.
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Two months later the girls borrowed his camera again, and this time returned with a photograph of Elsie Wright sitting on the lawn holding out her hand to a 1-foot-tall gnome.
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The lecture that evening was on "fairy life", and at the end of the meeting Polly Elsie Wright showed the two fairy photographs taken by her daughter and niece to the speaker.
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Elsie Wright 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".
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Arthur Elsie 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.
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Elsie Wright suggested that a troupe of dancers had masqueraded as fairies, and expressed doubt as to their "distinctly 'Parisienne" hairstyles.
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Elsie Wright again brought cameras and photographic plates for Frances and Elsie, but was accompanied by the occultist Geoffrey Hodson.
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Elsie Wright 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.
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BBC television's Nationwide programme investigated the case in 1971, but Elsie Wright 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".
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Elsie Wright 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.
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Elsie Wright maintained it was a fake, just like all the others, but Frances insisted that it was genuine.
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