Heather surveyed the array of paperwork on her desk and again read through the provenance note attached to Professor Foyle"s collection file. Then she had a quick rifle through the notebooks on her desk that she had extracted from one of the boxes, along with the draft manuscript that was central to the collection. It was clear from the outset that Professor Foyle had been working on establishing Alice Bailey as the mother of the New Age. From a draft table of contents Heather could see it was an ambitious project. Fifteen chapters divided into three sections, the first situating Alice Bailey in time and place, the second devoted to her key New Age contributions including who out of the cohort of New Age thinkers and writers relied on her work, the third devoted to controversies and a dis

