Events 2022
Saturday, March 5, 2022
Saturday, March 5, 2022
Saturday, March 5, 2022
What a special treat! Professor Margaret Mitchell will travel from the University of West Georgia to discuss Daphne du Maurier's gothic study in jealousy and suspense - My Cousin Rachel, our 2022 Novel Study. We are thrilled that Professor Mitchell will join us to share her perspective on the novel.
Event is in-person.
Society members will be notified in due course if this meeting available by ZOOM.
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm.
Event location - Menakinney
Tea will be served.
May 6-14, 2022
Saturday, March 5, 2022
Saturday, March 5, 2022
Several members will be attending the Fowey Festival of Arts and Literature this year and some of our fabulous speakers have contemplated submitting breakout proposals.. More details will be available in due course but we are planning a get-together of the Daphne du Maurier Society of North America during the festival.
Friday, May 13, 2022
Saturday, March 5, 2022
Saturday, May 21, 2022
In honor of Daphne du Maurier's birthday (May 13th), we suggest you enjoy your favorite novel or movie adaptation from the comfort of your home.
Saturday, May 21, 2022
Sunday, August 28, 2022
Saturday, May 21, 2022
Our Dinner & a Movie Night will feature the 2017 adaptation of My Cousin Rachel starring Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin. The story of a young Englishman who initially plots revenge against his late cousin's mysterious wife, believing her responsible for his cousin's death, but whose feelings soon become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms, is brought to life by excellent performances. .
Author Samantha Mabry will lead a discussion of this film adaptation in which Daphne du Maurier's dark, psychological overtones are maintained.
Event is in-person.
Regrettably, the post film discussion will not be available for Society members by ZOOM.
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm.
Event location - Menakinney
Dinner will be English fare.
Listen to Samantha's interview on Art & Seek after being nominated for a National Book Award.
Sunday, August 28, 2022
Sunday, August 28, 2022
Sunday, August 28, 2022
Our event will be held at the Mansion on Turtle Creek, an opulent manor built in 1925. With architecture and interiors influenced by 16th century Renaissance Italy, it is the perfect setting to host our speaker, Margherita Orsi, Ph.D. student from the University of Bologna. Margherita will travel to Dallas to review our 2022 Short Story Study - A Border Line Case. The story centers around a young actress (whose next role is Viola/Cesaro in Twelfth Night) who decides after the sudden death of her father to look up his estranged colleague in Ireland. The colleague was best man at her parents’ wedding but shortly thereafter vanished without a trace from their lives. Reflecting on the story, Daphne du Maurier once wrote:
"…it’s rather an awful story really. The end, I mean."
Ouch!
Event is in-person.
Society members will be notified in due course if this meeting will be available by ZOOM.
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Luncheon served.
Event location - Mansion on Turtle Creek
Hitchcocktober 2022
Sunday, August 28, 2022
Sunday, August 28, 2022
The Dallas Angelika Movie Theater will once again be hosting Hitchcocktober. The particular Hitchcock adaptations have not been chosen yet but one of Daphne du Maurier's stories is almost always included. Details will be available in due course.
Saturday, November 19, 2022
Saturday, November 19, 2022
Saturday, November 19, 2022
Dinner & A Movie Night!
Often Daphne du Maurier's stories illuminate the competing dual natures within individual characters, occasionally even with doppelgangers. This has long been recognized as Daphne du Maurier’s debt to The Prisoner of Zenda, one of her favorite novels from childhood. The novel spawned an entire genre known as Ruritanian romance. Attorney Chris Peirson will discuss these spin-offs and their influence on the works of Daphne du Maurier. Among our local members there was quite a passionate exchange about which film version to view; however, almost everyone's favorite bad boy is James Mason. So the 1952 version it will be.
Event is in-person.
Regrettably, the post film discussion will not be available for Society members by ZOOM.
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Event location - Menakinney
Coronation Chicken Salad, of course, will be served.
Saturday, December 10, 2022
Saturday, November 19, 2022
Saturday, November 19, 2022
Join us for our annual Christmas in Cornwall Luncheon (held in Dallas, Texas rather than Fowey, unfortunately). One of Daphne du Maurier's plays, A September Tide, will be reviewed by Oral Historian and playwright Leonard Cox. The story revolves around an artist son-in-law who falls in love with the more mellow grace of his wife's mother. The feather weight treatment of post-war cynicism and morals in the younger generation permits a wistfully happy ending. Or does it?
Event is in-person.
Society members will be notified in due course if this meeting will be available by ZOOM.
Noon - 2:30 pm
Event location - Mena-kinney
Luncheon served.