Bessie Pullen-Burry FRGS FRAI (1858 – 21 September 1937) was a British novelist, geographer, explorer, suffragist, and anti-Semite.
Bessie Pullen-Burry | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1858 Sompting, England |
| Died | 21 September 1937 (aged 78–79) Hindhead, England |
Bessie Pullen-Burry was born in 1858 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.[2]
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
edit- Nobly Won: A Novel. 2 vol. London: Remington, 1888.[1]
- Eleanor Lewknor. 2 vol. London: Remington, 1889.[1]
- Blotted Out. 1 vol. London: Roxburghe Press, 1897.[1]
- Jamaica as It Is. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903.[2]
- Ethiopia in Exile: Jamaica Revisited. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905.[2]
- In a German Colony; or, Four Weeks in New Britain. London: Methuen. 1909.[2]
- From Halifax to Vancouver . London: Mills & Boon, 1912.[2]
- Letters from Palestine, February–April, 1922. Judaic Publishing Company, 1922.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Author: Bessie Pullen Burry". www.victorianresearch.org. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f Keighren, Innes M. (2 October 2017). ""A Royal Geographical Society for Ladies": The Lyceum Club and Women's Geographical Frontiers in Edwardian London". The Professional Geographer. 69 (4): 661–669. Bibcode:2017ProfG..69..661K. doi:10.1080/00330124.2017.1289773. ISSN 0033-0124.
- ^ Keighren, Innes M. (2010). Bringing geography to book: Ellen Semple and the reception of geographical knowledge. Tauris historical geography. London New York: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84885-141-2.
- ^ a b Toczek, Nick (2016). Haters, baiters and would-be dictators: anti-semitism and the UK far right. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-85348-5.
- ^ "Obituary". The Times. 23 September 1937. p. 14.