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Tax deductible donations are particularly welcome for the endowment of the Daniel G. Blum Memorial Lecture, established to honor one of the founders of the Society. The lecture is delivered every November at the annual dinner. Donors may also choose to contribute to the on-going operations of the society as a sponsor at the $100 level or higher. Donors at the $100 level or higher are listed in the annual dinner program. SJSW is a registered 501(c)(3) organization.
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Kate Chisholm, the author of Wits and Wives: Dr. Johnson in the Company of Women and Fanny Burney: Her Life will deliver the thirty-first Daniel G. Blum Memorial Lecture at the society’s annual meeting 11 October 2026. Ms. Chisholm has also published biographical essays on the Burney family (in The Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney) and Mary Wollstonecraft (in Mary Wollstonecraft in Context). Most recently, she edited Letters to Sophia: The Afterlives of Hester Thrale.
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