An enthusiastic spiritualist, he wrote an article in 1920 that used these pictures as reference material. These pictures became a sensation when no other than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spoke out about them, claiming that they were proof of psychic phenomena. Through unusual circumstances, these pictures eventually caught the public eye. The resulting work is a spoof of one of Britain’s more interesting urban legends: the story of the Cottingley Fairies, which began in 1917 when Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths took pictures of themselves with cardboard cutout fairies. Together, they collaborated on ‘Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book’. Brian Froud is an illustrator and was one of the designers that worked on ‘The Dark Crystal’, ‘Labyrinth’ and on ‘The Empire Strikes Back’s Yoda. Terry Jones is a member of the legendary comedy troupe Monty Python, a director and an author. Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book, by Terry Jones and Brian Froud 8.5 The publisher (at the request of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Fairies) notes that no fairies were injured or killed in the manufacturing process… Handwritten and handsomely bound, this book is as surprising as it is pleasing. Instead of pressing flowers in it, she pressed fairies (with a resulting look remarkably similar to watercolors). Summary: This handsome and unusual book is the diary kept by Lady Cottington.
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