A different class of suffragette | Letters

June Purvis paints a very admirable picture of Emmeline Pankhurst (A suffragist statue in Parliament Square would write Emmeline Pankhurst out of history, theguardian.com, 27 September) as a colourful campaigner.When anyone disagreed with her she simply tended to throw them out of the movement, including her own daughter, Sylvia Pankhurst, who believed working-class women should have the right to vote but her middle-class mother wasn’t interested and they fell out over it.Emmeline Pankhurs