The girl 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 photographs to other people, who studied
them and argued about them. Many believed that the Cottingley Glen fairies were real,
even the famous author Arthur Conan Doyle.