London, 1912. This is Clara. She’s 32. And she’s been committed to an asylum for attending a suffrage rally. Clara stands on a platform. Speaks about women’s right to vote. Shouts “Votes for Women” with hundreds of others. She doesn’t throw stones. Doesn’t break windows. She just speaks. Her husband calls the family doctor. 15-minute exam. Diagnosis: “Political excitement” causing “hysterical agitation.” Evidence: A woman demanding political rights is clearly unbalanced. Holloway Sanatorium. Clara is strapped to a chair. Rubber tube forced down her throat. Force-fed liquid nutrition. The same brutal treatment imprisoned suffragettes receive. Punishment for speaking. She’s kept heavily sedated. “Resting” from politics. Months pass. The suffrage movement grows stronger. Too powerful to ignore. Two years later, Clara is released. Not cured. Just too inconvenient to keep. The movement’s too powerful now. She’s 34. Never votes. Dies in 1917. One year before the 1918 Representation of the Pe...