"Who wrote ""The Coming of the Fairies"" (1921) which shows he was apparently convinced of the veracity of photographs of fairies, in which he theorised about the nature and existence of fairies and spirits?"
Cottingley Fairies Cottingley Fairies The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright (1901–1988) and Frances Griffiths (1907–1986), two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England. In 1917, when the first two photographs were taken, Elsie was 16 years old and Frances was 9. The pictures came to the attention of writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who used them to illustrate an article on fairies he had been commissioned to write for the Christmas 1920 edition of "The Strand Magazine". Doyle, as a spiritualist, was enthusiastic about the photographs, and interpreted them as clear
Cottingley Fairies keen photographer and pioneer of medical X-ray treatments in Britain, was a particularly vigorous critic: Doyle used the later photographs in 1921 to illustrate a second article in "The Strand", in which he described other accounts of fairy sightings. The article formed the foundation for his 1922 book "The Coming of the Fairies". As before, the photographs were received with mixed credulity. Sceptics noted that the fairies "looked suspiciously like the traditional fairies of nursery tales" and that they had "very fashionable hairstyles". Gardner made a final visit to Cottingley in August 1921. He again brought cameras and photographic plates