The fight for suffrage

SIR – Your piece about Annie’s Arboretum (January 6) states that the retreat was home to campaigners such as Millicent Fawcett and Emmeline Pankhurst “as they recuperated from their prison sentences”.

Millicent Fawcett was never sent to prison. When the cause of women’s suffrage became her lifetime crusade, she recruited supporters through entirely constitutional means and strengthened party political alliances to this end. She even had the support of the wartime prime minister David Lloyd George. The same certainly can’t be said of Emmeline Pankhurst: she had the suffragettes blow up his house. Emilie Lamplough

Trowbridge, Wiltshire