Annot Robinson
Annot Robinson | |
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Born | Annot Erskine Wilkie 8 June 1874 Montrose, Scotland |
Died | 29 September 1925 Perth, Scotland | (aged 51)
Nationality | Scottish |
Occupation | Teacher |
Known for | Suffragette and pacifist |
Annot Robinson, nicknamed Annie, (
Early life
Born Annot Erskine Wilkie on 8 June 1874 in Montrose, Scotland, to John Wilkie (a draper) and Catherine Jane Erskine (a teacher).[3] Wilkie was one of three daughters.[citation needed] Her sister, Helen Wilkie, later became Secretary of the Dundee branch of the Women’s Freedom League. Helen was a "gifted orator"[4] who organised women for a Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) march in Edinburgh in 1907 and was part of the deputation who met with Winston Churchill in 1909.[4]
Wilkie was a pupil teacher at Montrose Academy until she was 16. She then went on to teacher training college, before taking external classes in English, French, Astronomy, Comparative Religion and History at the University of St Andrews, where she was awarded the LLA in 1901.[2][3][5]
Campaigning for women's suffrage
Wilkie worked as a teacher in Dundee and it was while she was working here that she was influenced by Agnes Husband (a member of the Dundee Labour Party.)[2][5]
In 1906 she became the first secretary of the
Death
She died in Perth Royal Infirmary during an operation, and Ellen Wilkinson wrote her obituary.[2] Wilkinson described her as "a big woman and a big personality" with "an exquisite sense of the ridiculous and a sharp tongue."[3][2][7] Robinson's daughter, Helen, was interviewed about her mother in September 1981 as part of Brian Harrison's Suffrage Interviews project, titled Oral evidence on the suffragette and suffragist movements: the Brian Harrison interviews. Robinson talks about the relationship between her mother and father, Sam Robinson, and a little about their other daughter, Helen's sister Cathy, as well as suffrage meetings that she attended with her mother. [8]
Posthumous recognition
Her name and picture (and those of 58 other women's suffrage supporters) are on the
References
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/48529. Retrieved 26 February 2018. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Wilkie, Annot (Robinson) – Socialist, Suffragette Wilkie, Helen – Socialist, Suffragette | Dundee Women's Trail". Dundeewomenstrail.org.uk. 18 January 2013. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ ISBN 9780748626601.
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- ^ ISBN 9780415239264.
- ^ "Suffragette City – Manchester's Central Library hosts exhibition celebrating the life of Annot Robinson | Manchester City Council". Manchester.gov.uk. 17 March 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ "Mrs Anott Robinson (née Wilkie) | Manchester and Salford Women's Trades Union Council". www.mswtuc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
- ^ London School of Economics and Political Science. "The Suffrage Interviews". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
- ^ "Historic statue of suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett unveiled in Parliament Square". Gov.uk. 24 April 2018. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- ^ Topping, Alexandra (24 April 2018). "First statue of a woman in Parliament Square unveiled". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- ^ "Millicent Fawcett statue unveiling: the women and men whose names will be on the plinth". iNews. 24 April 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2018.