The Fairy Ring (14 page)

Brotherton Collection, Leeds University Library. Papers and photographs relating to the Cottingley fairies, Handlist #170.

Butcher, W., & Sons Ltd.
Photography with a MIDG Magazine Camera.
(Instruction manual, undated.)

Cooper, Joe.
The Case of the Cottingley Fairies.
London: Pocket Books/Simon and Schuster, 1997.

Doyle, Arthur Conan.
The Coming of the Fairies.
New York: G. H. Doran, 1921.

Gardner, Edward L.
Fairies: A Book of Real Fairies.
London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1945.

Griffiths, Frances.
Reflections on the Cottingley Fairies: Frances Griffiths — In Her Own Words, with Additional Material by her Daughter Christine.
Belfast: JMJ Publications, 2009.

Lellenberg, Jon, Daniel Stashower, and Charles Foley, eds.
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters.
New York: Penguin, 2007.

Briggs, K. M.
The Fairies in English Tradition and Literature.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967.

Doyle, Charles Altamont.
The Doyle Diary: The Last Great Conan Doyle Mystery.
New York and London: Paddington Press Ltd., 1978.

Hodson, Geoffrey.
Fairies at Work and Play.
Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1982.

Purkiss, Diane.
At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, and Other Troublesome Things.
New York: New York University Press, 2003.

Silver, Carole G.
Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Stashower, Daniel.
Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle.
New York: Holt, 1999.

Mary Losure
began her wandering career path backpacking in the mountains of California and Oregon and kayaking in Prince William Sound, in Alaska. She’s worked as a field botanist’s assistant, family farmer, and staff reporter for Minnesota Public Radio. A longtime contributor to National Public Radio, she says she began
The Fairy Ring,
her first book for children, after becoming “intrigued by the mystery of Frances and Elsie. Who were these girls? And how could they have bamboozled the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?” She lives with her husband in Minnesota.