Lucy Neal is the great great niece of Mary Neal and has spent three years piecing together the stories of Mary's life. Owner of Mary's papers since 1993 she handed them for safe-keeping to the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library on Feb 7th 2009 during a day-long celebration of Mary's life and work. Formely director of the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT), Lucy was first introduced to Mary and her work serendipitously through a talk given during LIFT'93 called Folklore/Fakelore.