The Green Bough by E. Temple Thurston is an English novel set around the women of the 20th
century. Excerpt: The life of Mary Throgmorton viewed as one would scan the chronicles of
history impersonally without regard to the conventions is the life of a woman no more than
fulfilled in the elements of her being. All women would be as Mary Throgmorton if they dared.
All women would love as Mary Throgmorton loved--suffer as she suffered. Perhaps not all might
yield as she yielded towards the end not all might make her sacrifices. But in the
latitudinous perspective of Time where everything vanishes to the point of due proportion she
must range with that vast army of women who have hungered loved been fed and paid the
reckoning with the tears out of their eyes and the very blood out of their hearts.
