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Annot Erskine Wilkie (8 June 1874 - 29 September 1925) was a Scottish Suffragette and Labour activist.

Early life
Wilkie was born on 8 June 1874 in Montrose, Scotland, to John Wilkie (a draper) and Catherine Jane Erskine (a teacher). Wilkie was one of three daughters, her sister, Helen Wilkie, was also a suffragette.

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.

Campaigning for women's suffrage
Wilkie became a teacher working in Dundee and Lochgelly. It was while she was working in Dundee that she was influenced by Agnes Husband (a member of the Dundee Labour Party.)

In 1906, Wilkie became the first secretary of the Woman's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in the Dundee branch.