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.

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

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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.

Frances Wright ( 1795 – 1852 ) came to New Harmony in 1824, where she edited and wrote for the New Harmony Gazette.

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.

Miss Joan Frances Baker, a graduate of SMU, was married Saturday to Elvis Leonard Mason, an honor graduate of Lamar State College of Technology, in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church of Houston.

A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

Sapir replied stating that it " should by all means be published "; however, it was not until 1993 that it was prepared for publication by Lyle Campbell and Frances Karttunen.

Love was married to Kurt Cobain, frontman of the grunge band Nirvana, with whom she has a daughter, Frances Bean Cobain.

Nonetheless, the publication of the article led to a lengthy battle with the Los Angeles County Court in which custody of newborn Frances was taken away from Love and Cobain and placed with Love's sister, Jamie, for several months.

Six months later, on August 18, the couple's only child, a daughter named Frances Bean Cobain, was born.

In 1917, when the first two photographs were taken, Elsie was 16 years old and Frances was 10.

In the early 1980s Elsie and Frances admitted that the photographs were faked using cardboard cutouts of fairies copied from a popular children's book of the time, but Frances maintained that the fifth and final photograph was genuine.

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.

Frances was by then living with her parents in Scarborough, but Elsie's father told Gardner that he had been so certain the photographs were fakes that while the girls were away he searched their bedroom and the area around the beck ( stream ), looking for scraps of pictures or cutouts, but found nothing " incriminating ".

Because Frances and Elsie insisted that the fairies would not show themselves if others were watching, Elsie's mother was persuaded to visit her sister's for tea, leaving the girls alone.

He again brought cameras and photographic plates for Frances and Elsie, but was accompanied by the clairvoyant Geoffrey Hodson.

Elsie maintained it was a fake, just like all the others, but Frances insisted that it was genuine.

" 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.

The first edition of Frances ' memoirs was published a few months later, under the title Reflections on the Cottingley Fairies.

The task force was chaired by Allen Frances.

Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia, but they never formally adopted him.

The first North American novel, The History of Emily Montague ( 1769 ) by Frances Brooke was written in epistolary form.

At this point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.

Frances ' daughter, Christine Lynch, appeared in an episode of the television programme Antiques Roadshow in Belfast, broadcast on BBC One in January 2009, with the photographs and one of the cameras given to the girls by Conan Doyle.

In one letter, dated 1983, Frances wrote:

The children were: Jenny Caroline ( m. Longuet ; 1844 – 83 ); Jenny Laura ( m. Lafargue ; 1845 – 1911 ); Edgar ( 1847 – 1855 ); Henry Edward Guy (" Guido "; 1849 – 1850 ); Jenny Eveline Frances (" Franziska "; 1851 – 52 ); Jenny Julia Eleanor ( 1855 – 98 ) and one more who died before being named ( July 1857 ).

The following year, Mary became a godmother herself when she was named as one of the sponsors of her cousin Frances Brandon.

Upon graduation in 1856, Mudd returned to Charles County to practice medicine, marrying his childhood sweetheart, Sarah Frances ( Frankie ) Dyer Mudd one year later.

In the United States, there was one remaining active Shaker community, at Sabbathday Lake, Maine, which as of January 2011 has only five members: Sister June Carpenter, Brother Arnold Hadd, and Sister Frances Carr ( and two other brothers ).

In total, one cardinal, 18 bishops, and 3, 000 clergy of Frances supported an appeal to a general council.

In her book Noël Coward ( 1987 ), Frances Gray says that Brief Encounter is, after the major comedies, the one work of Coward's that almost everybody knows and has probably seen ; it has featured frequently on television and its viewing figures are invariably high.

The Hall also presents the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award to two college seniors — one male player no taller than, and one female player no taller than — determined to have been the nation's best student-athletes.

In the excitement following the rescue and safe transport of fugitive slave William " Jerry " Henry in Syracuse on October 1, 1851, Frances wrote to her husband, " two fugitives have gone to Canada — one of them our acquaintance John.

Mrs. Frances Wilson Blocker, a descendant of one the community's founders, suggested the name as a way to symbolize the biblical story of a dove bringing a branch to Noah.

A group of prostitutes in Big Whiskey, Wyoming, led by Strawberry Alice ( Frances Fisher ), offers a $ 1, 000 reward to whoever can kill Quick Mike ( David Mucci ) and " Davey-Boy " Bunting ( Rob Campbell ), two cowboys who disfigured Delilah Fitzgerald ( Anna Levine ), one of their own.

Van Dyke, who died in 1943, and the script was one of two not written by the husband and wife team of Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich who had worked with Dashiell Hammett to develop the Nick and Nora characters earlier in the series.

In 1873 the Evanston College for Ladies merged with Northwestern, and Frances Willard, who later gained fame as a suffragette and as one of the founders of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union ( WCTU ), became the school's first dean of women.

Frances Dee's character responds, " I tried one once, but there wasn't anything dead about it.

** Elizabeth Frances Cockburn ( 1845-1925 ), married to Henry Charles Biddulph Cotton Raban ( 1837-Chittagong, Bengal, 20 March 1871 ), who was with the Bengal Civil Service, and had one daughter:

They had one daughter, Mary Frances ( née Anna Mary Bush ), who was adopted in 1938 from the New York Foundling Hospital, run by the Sisters of Charity of New York.

Divine's mother, Frances Milstead ( née Vukovich ; April 12, 1920 – March 24, 2009 ), was one of fifteen children born to an impoverished Serbian immigrant couple who had grown up near to Zagreb, Yugoslavia, before moving to the United States in 1891.

He was the son of Therese and Issac Adler and had one sister, Frances Adler Elkins, who became one of the mid 20th-century's great interior decorators and often worked with her brother on residential projects.

* 2004-A record number of hurricanes strike Florida in one year, Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne.