| Born: 1901 |
| Daughter of: Arthur Wright and Polly Wright |
| Mother of: Glenn Hill |
Elsie was an extremely gifted and accomplished artist who painted landscapes and portraits, mainly in watercolour. |
She had attended Bradford Art College since the age of 13 and also found work in a photographic lab and a greeting card factory during the war. |
In the darkroom her job was to create composite photos of fallen soldiers with pictures of loved ones and during this time she had the opportunity to work with plate cameras. |
Elsie and her cousin Francis Griffith fooled Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the world with their photographs of Fairies. See the full story here: Cottingley Fairies. |
She later emigrated to America to escape the media attention but was dismayed to find that even in Maine, the tales of the Cottingley Fairies were well known. |
After marrying an engineer, Elsie emigrated again, this time to India. For the duration of the Second World War she was a captain in the WVS working in military hospitals in Calcutta. |
She returned to England after the 1947 declaration of independence and soon the media tracked her down and her privacy was lost again. |
| Died: 1988 |
