The Green Bough

"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.