The girls produced a number of photographs of themselves with fairies. Mr wright did not believe the fairies were real, but the girls' mothers were not so sure. They didn't think their daughters would trick them and, like many people at that time, they wanted to believe that fairies existed. They showed the lithographs to other people, who studied them and argued about them. Many believed that cottingley glen fairies were real, even the famous author arthur conan doyle.