Annot Robinson
/Overview
Annot Robinson (née Wilkie) born Montrose, Angus, Scotland June 8, 1874 (d. 1925). British schoolmistress; Socialist labor organizer. Powerful suffragist and pacifist orator. Twice arrested for suffrage protests; served 6 months in Holloway Prison and 3 weeks in Strangeways Prison for crashing into Parliament in a moving van, 1908. Founding member of WILPF, 1915. Women’s Peace Crusade, 1917; WILPF Manchester organizer, 1918-22; organizer of Zurich conference which she found “very inspiring,” 1919. Delegate to investigate Back and Tan militia violence, Ireland, 1920.
Quotations
“When women fight for their own hand then men will be relieved of the insufferable burden of chivalry and will be masked to fight in the light of day for their own hand.” (draft speech c. 1910, in June Balshaw, Suffrage, Solidarity and Strife, p. 304; photo chorltonhistory.blogspot.com)