Suffragette and pacifist. Born as Annot Erskine Wilkie in Scotland. Nicknamed Annie. Trained and worked as a teacher. She was sentenced to six months for trying to break in to the House of Commons. Organiser for the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies. She helped to found the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. 1907 she moved to Manchester to marry another Independent Labour Party member, Sam Robinson. Died Perth.
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