She would probably have wanted the recognition to come earlier — not at the end of a long life but during the decades when she was actively working and when recognition, in the form of manufacturing partnerships and licensing agreements, would have had practical as well as symbolic value.

She would probably have wanted her story to be told accurately and completely, which this article has attempted to do.

Not as a story of pure triumph against impossible odds — the obstacles were real and their consequences were real — but not as a story of pure victimhood either.

She was an inventor who invented.

She was a business owner who ran her business.

She was a person who lived her life with intelligence and persistence and a clear sense of what she was doing and why.