This is a necklace that my daughter, Mary Shelly, got made out of a lock of my hair. She collected locks of hair, a hobby she inherited from her father, my husband, William Godwin. The two charms at the bottom each contain a lock of My daughters hair and a lock of hair from her husband, Percy Shelly. The necklace was made by Antony Forrer, who held a royal warrant as Artist in Hair Jewelry to Her Majesty. Later the necklace was worn by my son in law, Percy Shelly's, sister Margaret Shelly in a painting sometime between 1851 and 1857.

"Necklace Fashioned from Mary Wollstonecraft's Hair." Shelley's Ghost- Reshaping the Image of A Literary Family. New York Public Library, n.d. Web 10 Dec. 2015.