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Bessie Pullen-Burry (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 gardener. Her brother was the occultist Henry B. Pullen Burry.
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.
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).
Bessie Pullen-Burry died on 21 September 1937 in Hindhead, England.
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.
