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In two episodes, the hosts explained that the book contained poems, stories, and illustrations by notable writers, including a set of three dancing fairy figures. They noted that Elsie used those fairy images as the visual model for her first fairy photograph, matching the poses and hairstyles. The discussion was purely descriptive, mentioning the book as a source rather than endorsing it.
Episode: A Glamour and a Mystery
The speaker mentioned that Frances had a copy of "Princess Mary's Gift Book", which had illustrations of fairies that Elsie based the fairies for the first photograph she took with Frances on.
Frances had a copy of Princess Mary's Gift Book and it contained poems stories and illustrations of leading writers and artists of the day interestingly there's a story in there by Conan Doyle that he contributed to this but there is a poem by Alfred Noyes called A Spell for a Fairy with illustrations by Claude A. Sheperson and if we open this up and go towards the end you'll see three dancing fairy figures and it was these figures that Elsie based the fairies for the first photograph she took with Frances on so if you compare these you'll see that she's added wings she's taken away some of the drapery from them and they've spaced the figures out but the poses and particularly the fashionable Parisian hairstyles are more or less the same really the same yeah yeah yeah absolutely I mean if you compare them they're I've got wings and a few changes to the dresses the girls attached the cut out fairy drawings to hat pins to make them stand up in the grass here's Elsie we with the the long hat pin put it down down the back like that and stuck the tape at the back like that and then gradually wormed that down and then wormed that down into the earth.
Episode: A Glamour and a Mystery
It was an old children's book that contained a drawing of three dancing fairies that looked almost exactly like the first photograph Elsie took of the fairies. It was published in 1914, three years before Elsie took her first photograph.
It was of three dancing fairies and it looked almost exactly like a photograph he'd seen before. The first photograph, Elsie, had taken of the fairies.
...the positions are much the same, but then positions are always much the same when people are dancing.
It contained poems, stories and illustrations of leading writers and artists of the day. Interestingly, there's a story in there by Arthur Conan Doyle and that he contributed to this.
But there is a poem by Alfred Noyes called A Spell for a Fairy with illustrations by Claude A. Sheperson.
And if we open this up and go towards the end, you'll see three dancing fairy figures.