machine, Knight was decorated by Queen Victoria of England in 1871. With a Massachusetts business partner, Knight established the Eastern Paper Bag Company in Hartford, Connecticut. Having no interest in managing a business, she instead received royalties from the Eastern Paper Bag Company and continued to work as an inventor. She acquired a further patent in 1879 for improvements to the paper bag machine. It was also assigned to Eastern. Though Knight earned a comfortable income by her paper bag royalties, they were however capped at $25,000 and therefore ended after a time. She would continue in this pattern for the rest of her career, selling her various inventions to companies in order to live on royalties and patent sales. Knight moved to Ashland and then Framingham, Massachusetts, working in an office in downtown Boston. Later inventions In the 1880s Knight designed three domestic inventions. She patented a dress and skirt shield in 1883, a clasp for robes in 1884, and a cooking spit in 1885. In the 1880s and 1890s Knight worked on machines for manufacturing shoes, receiving six patents for several machines used in cutting shoe materials. In the early 1900s Knight developed a number of components for rotary engines and motors, with patents being granted in 1902 to 1915 (after her death). Her understanding of this work was unfortunately limited by her lack of education. Her many other inventions include two patents of 1894: a numbering machine, and a window frame and sash. In total she was granted at least 27 and possibly 30 patents, though she also invented many devices she did not patent. Later life Knight continued her work late into life. A 1913 article in The New York Times reported that she was "working twenty hours a day on her eighty-ninth invention." Knight was never wealthy, though she lived more comfortably as an adult than in childhood. Knight never married and died alone on October 12, 1914, at the age of 76, leaving an estate worth only $275.05. Legacy As a female inventor, Knight faced certain challenges and limits. It is possible that Knight's difficulties as a female inventor may have been exaggerated in modern popular culture, such as in children's books. These include the claims that Knight's inventions were disregarded because of her gender, and that Charles Anan (or Annan) argued in court that women were incapable of such inventions. It is true