Maquette, detail, of how the statue of Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960) would look

• WHERE is the best place to put the proposed statue of Sylvia Pankhurst?

To the question raised recently in the Tribune (Best place for statue of this socialist & internationalist, February 10), the obvious answer is: on the grounds of the former Holloway Prison for Women.

Pankhurst was first jailed there from October 23 to November 6 1906, following a suffragist “scrimmage” in parliament.

She was jailed again in February 1913, this time suffering the torture of force-feeding. Under the infamous “Cat & Mouse act” passed later that year, she was sent to the prison eight more times in the next 17 months, only released after her hunger strike embarrassed the government (and severely damaged her health).

She was returned to Holloway in 1921 for sedition, after publishing anti-war articles.

And if we are raising statues on the Holloway site, we should also include one of Constance Markievicz who, in 1918, became the first woman elected to the House of Commons (elected in Dublin, which was then part of the UK).

She did not take her seat in Westminster as an MP, as she was four miles up the road in Holloway for the second time, having been “preventatively” arrested with other Irish revolutionaries.

In fact, we could have a whole sculpture garden devoted to fighters for women’s rights – Her/His Majesty played host to so many of them over the years…

ANDREW WILSON, N19