The first of the five photographs, taken by Elsie Wright in 1917, shows Frances Griffiths with the alleged fairies.

The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England.

Frances was invited to stay with the Wright family during the school summer holiday so that she and Elsie could take more pictures of the fairies.

To protect the girls ' anonymity, Frances and Elsie were called Alice and Iris respectively, and the Wright family was referred to as the Carpenters.

Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright, June 1917

In the 1830s, Lydia Maria Child wrote to encourage women to write a will, and Frances Wright wrote books on women's rights and social reform.

Frances Wright, c. 1825.

Frances Wright ( September 6, 1795 – December 13, 1852 ) also widely known as Fanny Wright, was a Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, abolitionist, and social reformer, who became a U. S. citizen in 1825.

Frances Wright was one of three children born in Dundee, Scotland to Camilla Campbell and James Wright, a wealthy linen manufacturer and political radical.

Wright married a French physician, Guillayme D ' Arusmont, with whom she had one child: Frances Silva D ' Arusmont.

* Frances Wright, Woman's Advocate

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The town served as the second headquarters of the U. S. Geological Survey and numerous scientists and educators contributed to New Harmony ’ s intellectual community, including William Maclure, Marie Louise Duclos Fretageot, Thomas Say, Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, Joseph Neef, Frances Wright, and others.

At New Harmony, Robert Dale Owen taught school and published the New Harmony Gazette with Frances Wright.

1964 also saw the departure of Wright, who was replaced by Frances Collins, a dancer whom they had met while touring ; toward the end of that year Alston departed leaving the group a trio.

Women who advocated for women's rights such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Frances Wright, and Harriet Martineau were accused of disrupting the natural order of things, and condemned as unfeminine.

Notable Vassar alumni include first black graduate Anita Florence Hemmings ( 1897 ), poet Edna St. Vincent Millay ( 1917 ), computer pioneer Grace Hopper ( 1928 ), poet Elizabeth Bishop ( 1934 ), physician Beatrix Hamburg ( 1944 ), politician and activist Frances Farenthold, psychiatrist Bernadine P. Healy ( 1965 ), actress Meryl Streep ( 1971 ), CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Chip Reid ( 1977 ), television personality Andrew Zimmern ( 1984 ), actress Lisa Kudrow ( 1985 ), actress Hope Davis ( 1986 ), musician Mark Ronson, journalist Evan Wright ( 1988 ), writer-director Noah Baumbach ( 1991 ), Flickr founder Caterina Fake ( 1991 ), What Not to Wear host Stacy London ( 1991 ), Survivor: Africa winner Ethan Zohn ( 1996 ), actress Lecy Goranson.

John Keats was born in Moorgate, London, on 31 October 1795, to Thomas and Frances Jennings Keats.

Born on 23 May 1795 in Bridge Street, Westminster ( opposite the future site of the Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster ), he was the fourth son of Walter Edward Barry ( died 1805 ) a stationer, and Frances Barry née Maybank ( died 1798 ).

Ann Emily married the Honorable Ross Cuthbert ; Richard Rush ( 1780 – 1859 ) became an attorney and married Catherine Elizabeth Murray ; Mary married Major Thomas Manners ; James became a medical doctor and married Eugenia Frances Heister and Elizabeth Upshur Dennis ; Benjamin did not marry, moved to New Orleans, LA ; Julia ( 1792 – 1860 ) married Henry Jonathon Williams Esquire ; Samuel ( 1795 – 1859 ) became an attorney and married Nancy Anne Wilmer ; William became a doctor and married Elizabeth Fox Roberts.

* General Lord Charles FitzRoy ( 14 July 1764 – 20 December 1829 ), who married, firstly, Frances Mundy ( 1773 – 9 August 1797 ) on 20 June 1795, and had one son.

Lord Anglesey was first married on 5 July 1795 in London to Lady Caroline Elizabeth Villiers ( 16 December 1774-16 June 1835 ), daughter of George Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey and Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey.

Weems married Frances Ewell in 1795 and established a household in Dumfries, Virginia.

He married on 12 September 1819 to Julia Frances Ludlum ( 1795 – 1869 ), the sister of Judge Gabriel W. Ludlum.

* The Lady Cecil Frances Hamilton ( 19 July 1795 – 7 July 1860 ), married William Howard, 4th Earl of Wicklow and had issue.

* 1821 – Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.

* 1847 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer ( d. 1927 )

* 1941 – Cornelia Frances, Australian actress

* Frances Bunsen ( 1791 – 1876 ), or Baroness Bunsen, Welsh painter and author, wife of Christian Charles Josias Bunsen

* Frances of Rome ( 1384 – 1440 )

In mid-1917 ten-year-old Frances Griffiths and her mother – both newly arrived in the UK from South Africa – were staying with Frances ' aunt, Elsie Wright's mother, in the village of Cottingley in West Yorkshire ; Elsie was then 16 years old.

In a 1985 interview on Yorkshire Television's Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers, Elsie said that she and Frances were too embarrassed to admit the truth after fooling Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes: " Two village kids and a brilliant man like Conan Doyle – well, we could only keep quiet.

" In the same interview Frances said: " I never even thought of it as being a fraud – it was just Elsie and I having a bit of fun and I can't understand to this day why they were taken in – they wanted to be taken in.

* 1613 – Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, marries Frances Howard.

* 1914 – Frances Reid, American actress ( d. 2010 )

* 1902 – Frances Bavier, American actress ( d. 1989 )

Frances " Fanny " Abington ( 1737 – 4 March 1815 ) was a British actress.

* Frances A. Yates ( 1899 – 1981 )

' Emigrants Leave Ireland ', engraving by Henry Doyle ( 1827 – 1892 ), from Mary Frances Cusack's Illustrated History of Ireland, 1868

* 1953 – Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U. S. Congress.

* 1967 – Frances O ' Connor, Australian actress

* 1886 – U. S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.

* 1994 – Frances Heflin, American actress ( b. 1923 )

* 1907 – Frances Horwich, American educator and television host ( d. 2001 )

* 1724 – Frances Brooke, English writer ( d. 1789 )

* 1930 – Frances Sternhagen, American actress