The Difficult Women Collection
Jewelry Inspired by the Women Who Changed History
Portrait pendants and signet rings honoring the queens, warriors, scholars, and poets who refused to disappear.
Which Difficult Woman Are You?
The women in this collection were called difficult because history had no gentler word for power it could not control. Cleopatra the sovereign, Cassandra the seer, Sappho the poet, Boudica the rebel. Take our quiz to find the woman whose story speaks to yours.
Related works: Goddesses and Muses
They were called difficult because they were impossible to ignore. Queens who outmaneuvered empires, scholars who taught philosophy in a world that preferred women silent, warriors who led armies, poets whose work survived centuries of deliberate erasure. History tried to sideline them. It didn't work.
This feminist jewelry collection renders twelve of these women as wearable portraits in gold: Anne Boleyn, Boudica, Cleopatra, Clytemnestra, Cassandra, Hatshepsut, Hypatia of Alexandria, Agrippina Minor, Livia Drusilla, Olga of Kyiv, Pandora, and Sappho. Each pendant is cast from original artwork and available in 18k gold vermeil or solid gold. The Anne Boleyn necklace is one of our most-loved pieces — a portrait of the queen who changed the course of English history, worn close to the heart. Signet rings are available for Anne Boleyn, Boudica, Hypatia, and Sappho.
Not sure which woman speaks to you? Take the quiz.
