Events 2023
Sunday, February 19 2023
"Writers Should Be Read" Summer Meeting in Michigan 2023
Sunday, February 19 2023
Daphne du Maurier's stories often 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 is always quite a passionate exchange about which film version is best. Chris recommends that we watch both versions of the movie before the talk.
There is no charge for DdM Society Members and their guests to attend this event.
1:00 pm until 3:00 pm
Mena-Kinney
5214 Palomar Lane
Dallas, TX 75209
This event will be available for Society members by ZOOM.
Saturday, May 13, 2023
"Writers Should Be Read" Summer Meeting in Michigan 2023
Sunday, February 19 2023
Join us from the comfort of your home to celebrate Daphne du Maurier's 116th birthday with enthusiast and Cornwall resident Jude Brooks. Jude will reveiw various aspects of author's life over ZOOM .
The exact time and ZOOM instructions will be available in April.
"Writers Should Be Read" Summer Meeting in Michigan 2023
"Writers Should Be Read" Summer Meeting in Michigan 2023
"Writers Should Be Read" Summer Meeting in Michigan 2023
The Daphne du Maurier Society of North America will hold its first reading retreat at Higgins Lake, Michigan. The morning will consist of a speaker, group discussion and coffee. The study novel will be Rebecca. Date, time and other details will be confirmed in due course.
Fall Meeting - Date TBD
Saturday, November 4, 2023
"Writers Should Be Read" Summer Meeting in Michigan 2023
“With eternity assured, the human being on earth is more easily expendable.” Now that's not something you read every day!
Our Fall event will feature Univeristy of Dallas scholar, Sarah Berry, Ph.D. who will review our 2023 Short Story Study - The Breakthrough. The story involves a child who may have access to her dead twin’s life energy, a terminal cancer patient willing to donate his, and the real dilemma of the story arising after the death has occurred. Daphne du Maurier's construct of various weak and odd characters at the center of a life-altering experiment is, in itself, a brilliant literary technique - sci-fi or otherwise.
The date will be confirmed once Dr. Berry has her teaching schedule.
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
5214 Palomar Lane
Dallas, TX 75229
Tea will be served.
Society members will be notified in due course of the date of the meeting and if this meeting will be available by ZOOM.
Saturday, November 4, 2023
Saturday, November 4, 2023
Saturday, November 4, 2023
Join us for Movie Night in November!! We will watch the 1975 film adaptation of The Breakthrough - Daphne du Maurier's story about the secrets of ESP and life-after-death that sets up a line of questioning that science fiction continues to examine: at what point does technology become the internet of everything – including human experience and consciousness? Post film discussion will follow the movie. Guests are welcome.
6:00 pm - Box dinner (use your ESP to guess what is on the menu)
6:30 pm - Movie
Mena-Kinney
5214 Palomar Lane
Dallas, TX 75229
Regrettably, this event will not be available by ZOOM.
Saturday, December 2, 2023
Saturday, November 4, 2023
Saturday, November 4, 2023
Our annual Christmas in Cornwall Luncheon (held in Dallas, Texas rather than Fowey, unfortunately) will feature Daphne du Maurier Society President, Shirley Kinney, Ph.D. Dr. Kinney will discuss poisons of the past in her review of the various poisonous herbs and plants in Daphne du Maurier's My Cousin Rachel .
Noon - 2:30 pm
Luncheon served.
Event location - Mena-kinney
5214 Palomar Lane
Dallas, TX 75229
Society members will be notified in due course if this meeting will be available by ZOOM.