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

Sompting Sompting is a village and civil parish in the coastal Adur District of West Sussex, England between Lancing and Worthing. It is half grassland slopes and half developed plain at the foot of the South Downs National Park. Twentieth-century est ...

Sussex Sussex (Help:IPA/English, /ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English ''Sūþseaxe''; lit. 'South Saxons'; 'Sussex') is an area within South East England that was historically a kingdom of Sussex, kingdom and, later, a Historic counties of England, ...

, England, the daughter of John Pullen Burry, a

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. 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 The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is a long-established anthropological organisation, and Learned Society, with a global membership. Its remit includes all the component fields of anthropology, such as biolo ...

. 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 The Britons was an English anti-Semitic and anti-immigration organisation founded in July 1919 by Henry Hamilton Beamish and John Henry Clarke. The organisation published pamphlets and propaganda under the names Judaic Publishing Co. and late ...

, an

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and

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organisation. Their imprint Judaic Publishing Company published her ''Letters from Palestine'' (1922). Bessie Pullen-Burry died on 21 September 1937 in

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, 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.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pullen-Burry, Bessie 1858 births 1937 deaths Created via preloaddraft People from Sompting British women geographers British geographers British travel writers British women novelists Fellows of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society Antisemitism in the United Kingdom British suffragists