Annot Wilkie 1874-1925

cartoon of justice locked out of the House of Commons Became first secretary of the Dundee WSPU in 1906

All her life she divided loyalties between the Labour Party and the Suffrage movement.

In February 1909 she and others from WSPU tried to gain access to the House of Commons hidden in a furniture van. She was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment.

In 1910 joined the Women’s Labour League (WLL) a an organiser. She put a motion to Labour conference condemning its lack of support for Women’s franchise.

She supported liberalised and equal divorce.

Annot moved to NUWSS as an organiser after falling out with the WLL. Resigned from NUWSS at start of war as a pacifist. Went on to help found the WILPF – Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom with Chrystal Macmillan. In 1917 she was part of the Women's Peace Crusade. After the war she woked for the WILPF as an organiser until 1922.

Sister Helen organised women for a WSPU march in Edinburgh in 1907 and later became secretary of the Dundee WFL.