Elsie and Francis Pull Over Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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There's lots of elements in it that appeal the kind of harking back to a romantic ideal of a natural world of fairies, these sort of peaceful sprites. But not everyone was convinced. Some people said right away that Elsie and Francis had pulled one over on a lot of experts. One person wrote, knowing children and knowing that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has legs, I decide that they have pulled one of them.

In the summer of 1917, 16-year-old Elsie Wright took a photograph of her 9-year-old cousin, Frances Griffiths. It was the first photograph she’d ever taken — and it became the source of a mystery that lasted for most of the 20th century.

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