“The beginning is always today” – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Carry a message to inspire and invigorate your spirit. This pendant is engraved with a quotation attributed to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, as well as her signature. Born in 1797, the daughter of pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Shelley published Frankenstein, the classic novel considered to be the first work of science fiction, when she was 20 years old. Designed in the form of a Mobius strip with a single surface to symbolize the infinite, the organic shape is meant to be touched—tradition tells us that when words touch the skin they impart their power.

Inspired by antique and ancient jewelry inscribed with poetry and words of love, Laurel Elliott creates pieces that celebrate what we wear as a reflection of who we are and where we’ve been. Jewelry molds are made and cut by hand for casting with a technique in use since ancient times.