Bessie Pullen-Burry | |
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Born | 1858
Sompting, England |
Died | 21 September 1937
Hindhead, England | (aged 78–79)
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Bessie Pullen-Burry FRGS FRAI (1858 – 21 September 1937) was a British novelist, geographer, explorer, suffragist, and anti-Semite.
Bessie Pullen-Burry was born in 1858 in Sompting, Sussex, England, the daughter of John Pullen Burry, a market gardner. 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]