Suffragette violence

SIR – It seems somewhat ironic that we should be celebrating the suffragette movement’s success in achieving votes for women (report, February 6) when bombs were planted to further their cause, yet we condemn as terrorists other people for trying to further their deeply held convictions by violence. L M Mears

Cambridge

SIR – Many people are celebrating the activities of the suffragettes in getting women the vote in 1918. This may have been the case, but not in the way they think.

In 1968, the 50th anniversary, I was taught about the suffragettes at school, only to be corrected by my grandmother, a former suffragist.

“Mrs Pankhurst, dreadful woman,” she told me. “If it hadn’t been for her, we would have had the vote in 1910.” Gordon Le Pard

Dorchester

SIR – The most important way of commemorating the Representation of the People Act 1918 and subsequent legislation is to make a lifelong habit of always using one’s vote. Christine Whild

Abingdon, Oxfordshire