Bessie Pullen-Burry
| Miss Bessie Pullen-Burry | |||||||||
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| Born | 1858 | ||||||||
| Died | 1937 | ||||||||
| Residence |
Coniston, Avondale Road, S. Croydon c/o Mrs Kilvington, Coniston, Avondale Road, S. Croydon [1903] Lyceum Club, Picadilly, W. [1909] The Forum Club, 6 Grosvenor Place, W1 [1919] | ||||||||
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literary anthropologist geographer | ||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
House Notes
Proposed by John Gray; seconded by T.A. Joyce 1903.10.27
death noted in Report of the Council 1937-1938
Notes From Elsewhere
Bessie was one of the pupils at Emily Davis’ boarding school at Liverpool Terrace, New Shoreham. Later, Bessie spent some time continuing her education in Germany; perhaps some of her siblings also did so
A Royal Geographical Society for ladies’: the Lyceum Club and women’s geographical frontiers in Edwardian London. / Keighren, Innes M.
In: The Professional Geographer, 02.11.2016.
Abstract
This paper reconstructs the history, organization, and campaigning function of the Geographical Circle of the Lyceum Club—a membership group that, under the leadership of Bessie Pullen-Burry (1858–1937), sought to promote and legitimize women’s geographical work in early twentieth-century Britain. Through an examination of archival material and contemporary press coverage, I document the Geographical Circle’s efforts to establish itself as a professional body for women geographers and to lobby for their admission to the Royal Geographical Society. Although considerable scholarly attention has been paid to women geographers’ individual contributions to the discipline, their cooperative, professionalizing endeavors have been comparatively neglected. In tracing the parallel history of the Circle as an example of women’s self-organization, and of Pullen-Burry as an independent campaigner, I argue that a nuanced account of women’s professionalization in geography demands attention to both individual and collective endeavors.
The Circle was presided over by Bessie Pullen-Burry, an imperialist explorer and anthropologist. In addition to being an important supporter of the suffragist cause, Pullen-Burry was also a later member of 'The Britons', and anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant political group ... [from Bringing Geography to Book: Ellen Semple and the reception of Geographical...
The Forum Club was a London Club for women. Located at 6 Grosvenor Place, it was founded in 1919 as The London Centre for Women's Institute Members, and lasted into the early 1950s. A number of suffragettes and early feminists were members, including Elizabeth Robins, Mary Sophia Allen and Sybil Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda.
As well as accommodation for members (and their maids), the club contained a dining room, a lounge, a photographic darkroom, a salon which could by hired for exhibitions, a bridge room, a billiard room, a library and a hairdresing room.[1]
Publications
External Publications
Ethiopia in exile; Jamaica revisited, by B. Pullen-Burry. (London, T. F. Unwin, 1905)
From Halifax to Vancouver, (London, Mills and Boon, limited, [1912])
Pullen-Burry, B. (Bessie), 1858-: In a German colony; or, Four weeks in New Britain, (London, Methuen & Co., [1909])
Pullen-Burry, B. (Bessie), 1858-: Jamaica as it is, 1903; (London : T. F. Unwin, 1903)
Pullen-Burry, B. (Bessie), 1858-: Nobly won : a novel / (London : Remington, [1888?])
