Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book FROM THE PUBLISHER
The publishing sensation of the Edwardian age was the photograph of a small girl surrounded by fairies that appeared in The Regular magazine in 1907--the so-called Cottington hoax. While the child in the picture was known to be Angelica, only daughter of Lord Cottington of Bovey, its authenticity was hotly debated. Now at last we have the truth behind the photograph, and the whole extraordinary story behind it.
SYNOPSIS
It really happened--a hoax perpetrated by two girls who claimed to have photographed "fairies"; among the people caught up in the popular hysteria were Arthur Conan Doyle and Houdini. Now, this remarkable parody, written by a former Monty Python member, takes a riotously witty, visually extra-ordinary, and wildly original look at what occurred. In every respect, this "handwritten diary" captures the look of the age--though the fairies do sometimes have a more malevolent aspect than one might expect.
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