She may not have changed the world in quite the way she had imagined when she set sail for Britain all those years ago, and it may be far from the beautiful place she envisaged, but she has changed the lives of countless readers and, whether she liked it or not (and it's a fair bet that secretly she did), she helped change the way women are perceived, and perceive themselves.
Starting a toy business wasn't something she had envisaged, but she began to do some research and saw potential in the wooden toys she loved buying her children as gifts – an antidote to the plastic wares that fill shop shelves.
She was discharged from hospital in January 2013 and her life now is unimaginably different to anything she may have envisaged when she was an anonymous voice chronicling the fears of schoolgirls under the shadow of the Taliban.
She said she envisaged the job's taking easily as long as the decade she spent on the overhaul of 42nd Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue.
"There is a real risk that fiscal restraint has a more negative effect than we — or the E.C.B., or governments — currently envisage," she said in a note.
"It is extremely important to Iggy that she delivers the show she envisaged to share with her fans and that requires more time in development".
"The day she could behave like a real bitch, thought Camille, would be the day she was truly adult, and she envisaged in anticipation the bodies of advertising executives and the makers of video films lying staring with sightless eyes at the city's polluted skies, slain by the detailed revelations of her insight into their characters".
She envisaged that further difficulties might occur in relationships, e.g., when she took on greater responsibility at work, but that she now felt more able to be assertive about her own needs.
She envisaged a room with a view – and a library.
Gray also designed the furniture to suit the life she envisaged there.
She envisaged this vast play city – an underground something or other, a waterfall.
