Bessie Pullen-Burry Explained

Bessie Pullen-Burry
Birth Date:	1858
Birth Place:	Sompting, England
Death Place:	Hindhead, England

Bessie Pullen-Burry (– 21 September 1937) was a British novelist, geographer, explorer, suffragist, and anti-Semite.

Bessie Pullen-Burry was born in in Sompting, Sussex, England, the daughter of John Pullen Burry, a market gardener. Her brother was the occultist Henry B. Pullen Burry.^[1]

After publishing three novels, Pullen-Burry turned to travel writing. Her well-received travel narratives and her numerous papers delivered before learned societies brought her respect as a geographer. In 1903, she became a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. In 1912, Pullen-Burry founded the Geographical Circle of the Lyceum Club, to promote female geographers at a time when women were excluded from the Royal Geographic Society. Shortly thereafter, the RGS allowed female members and Pullen-Burry was inducted as a fellow of the RGS in 1913.^{[2] [3]}

Pullen-Burry was an ardent suffragist and women's suffrage is a significant theme in her travel books.

Pullen-Burry was an early member of The Britons, an anti-Semitic and anti-immigration organisation. Their imprint Judaic Publishing Company published her Letters from Palestine (1922).^[4]

Bessie Pullen-Burry died on 21 September 1937 in Hindhead, England.^[5]

Bibliography

• Nobly Won: A Novel.  2 vol.  London: Remington, 1888.
• Eleanor Lewknor.  2 vol.  London: Remington, 1889.
• Blotted Out.  1 vol.  London: Roxburghe Press, 1897.
• Jamaica as It Is. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903.
• Ethiopia in Exile: Jamaica Revisited. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905.
• In a German Colony; or, Four Weeks in New Britain. London: Methuen. 1909.
• From Halifax to Vancouver . London: Mills & Boon, 1912.
• Letters from Palestine, February–April, 1922. Judaic Publishing Company, 1922.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Author: Bessie Pullen Burry . 2024-02-08 . www.victorianresearch.org.
2. Keighren . Innes M. . 2017-10-02 . "A Royal Geographical Society for Ladies": The Lyceum Club and Women's Geographical Frontiers in Edwardian London . The Professional Geographer . en . 69 . 4 . 661–669 . 10.1080/00330124.2017.1289773 . 2017ProfG..69..661K . 0033-0124.
3. Book: Keighren, Innes M. . Bringing geography to book: Ellen Semple and the reception of geographical knowledge . 2010 . I.B. Tauris . 978-1-84885-141-2 . Tauris historical geography . London New York.
4. Book: Toczek, Nick . Haters, baiters and would-be dictators: anti-semitism and the UK far right . 2016 . Routledge . 978-1-138-85348-5 . London New York.
5. News: 23 September 1937 . Obituary . The Times . 14.