This is Margaret. She’s twenty-four years old. And she was committed to an asylum… for reading too many books. 📖🔒 Massachusetts, 1892. She wanted to attend college. Wanted to teach literature. Her father said education makes women hysterical. Unmarriageable. She read anyway. Philosophy. Science. Poetry. Late into the night by candlelight. Until he found her hidden library — two hundred books. The family doctor diagnosed “intellectual overtaxation” causing “nervous exhaustion.” Evidence: a woman who reads Plato can’t possibly be sane. Private asylum. Locked in a bare room. No books. No paper. No pen. Treatment: complete mental rest. Forced idleness. Seven years passed. Her father died. The bills stopped. Suddenly… she was “cured.” Released at thirty-one. Never went to college. Never taught. Never lived the life she dreamed of. Seven years stolen for wanting to read. When female education was literally diagnosed as insanity… and books could disappear you. This was legal. Drop a 🔒 for ...