5/11/2023 0 Comments The cottingley secret![]() ![]() And we discover that her girl, Aisling, who went missing and Ellen believed had been taken by the fairies was found dead. When her husband returns, she has a baby daughter, Martha, Olivia’s nana. I like the part about Frances’s teacher, Ellen, who is Olivia’s great granddaughter. Yet, Frances and Elsie insisted that the fifth photograph was not a fake as they didn’t use any cutouts and don’t even remember taking it. The diary ends with a reference to the confession that Elsie made in a magazine in the 1980s. The publication of the photos caused an uproar and many curious strangers came, and Frances was given a bad time in the school. So new photographs were taken and many people, including Arthur Conan Doyle, said that they were genuine. Frances didn’t like the situation, but she was too embarrassed to tell the truth. ![]() Elsie, who was nineteen then, used the same technique and used cut-outs. That sent the ball rolling, and Frances had to return to Cottingley to take more photographs. Her aunt Polly showed the photos of the fairies to Mr Gardner in a group of Theosophists she attended. The narration in Frances’s diary takes us to what happened after the war when Frances’s father returned and they moved to Scarborough. ![]()
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