Her involvement in the architectural profession was low-key but on-going, yet she is, unlike most of her male contemporaries, an unknown entity. In researching and documenting her life and work as an architect a number of issues about the profession and its history became clear. The profession has been constructed as a male preserve by the omission of women practitioners from its history. Prominence in the architectural profession has been confused with presence and, as only one or two women have come to prominence, it has been assumed that women generally have not been present.