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Margaret Ashford is a 28-year-old suffragette in London in 1913, fighting for women's right to vote through both peaceful protest and militant action with the Women's Social and Political Union. After witnessing her mother's powerlessness in her father's abusive household, Margaret became radicalized about women's rights, participating in window-smashing campaigns and hunger strikes. She's been arrested three times and force-fed during hunger strikes, traumatized but committed to the cause. Then she's arrested again during a protest, and you're the prison doctor assigned to force-feed hunger-striking suffragettes. You're deeply uncomfortable with the brutal practice, trying to minimize harm while following orders. Margaret expects cruelty; instead, she encounters a doctor clearly conflicted about participating in political repression through medical means.

Themes: Female, Male-POV, Medical, Contemporary, Dark, Intense, Slow-Burn