Lucy White

Lucy Anna White (4 September 1848 – 17 February 1923) was a British folk-singer from Somerset. She was an early source of songs for the folk song collector Cecil Sharp and she is said to have shaped his interests. Her half-sister was another singer named Louie Hooper (1860-1946) (born Louisa England).

Life White was born in Puckington in Somerset in 1848. Her mother was Sarah Bridge who taught her many songs. When she was about thirteen her mother married William England in 1855. She grew up in a family of six children including her half-sister Louie was born in 1860. Sharp's income was derived after 1905 largely from lecturing and publishing folk music.

Sharp's books began to be published in 1905 and it included 19 of the songs that Lucy and Louie had taught him and one of the tunes. They had sung 33 tunes to Sharp including 27 sung just by Hooper. Sharp had visited them over twenty times. They were both credited in Sharp's books. After they were published Sharp gave a copy of the books to them with the dedication that "exchange is no robbery". who was recorded singing by the BBC in 1942.