2024 Events
Saturday March 16, 2024
"Writers Should Be Read" Summer Meeting in Michigan 2024
Saturday March 16, 2024
“The first thing I noticed was the clarity of the air, and then the sharp green colour of the land”
Our 2024 Study Novel event will feature Professor Gina Wisker, doctoral supervisor and Assistant Professor/Senior Lecturer in the International Centre for Higher Education Management, University of Bath. Professor Wisker will tackle Daphne du Maurier's The House on the Strand. The story revolves around a man who finds himself tied to the events of the past as a science experiment takes him back to medieval England. He soon does not want to live in the Modern world. Filled with doppelgängers, deception and death, you will never drop a phone again.
We are honored to have Professor Wisker discuss this engrossing novel and appreciate her traveling from the U.K. to join us.
Saturday, March 16, 2024
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 May 18, 2024
"Writers Should Be Read" Summer Meeting in Michigan 2024
Saturday March 16, 2024
"No one was human, no one was safe,..." Now that's not something you read every day!
Dr. Michael Shou-Yung Shum will travel to Dallas to discuss our 2024 Short Story Study "The Blue Lenses". The tale involves a woman, Marda West, who undergoes a serious eye operation. Weeks later, and once the bandages have been removed, with replacement lenses implanted, she perceives that the heads of her fellow humans have been gruesomely replaced with those of animals, the worst saved for those closest to her: her surgeon, her personal nurse and her husband.
Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Dr. Shum eventually found himself dealing poker in a dead-end casino in Lake Stevens, Washington. Two doctorates bookend this strange turn of events: the first in Psychology from Northwestern, and the second in English from the University of Tennessee. Along the way, Michael spent a dozen years in Chicago, touring the country as a rave DJ, and three years in Corvallis, Oregon, where he received his MFA in Fiction Writing. He currently is Clinical Associate Professor in the Expository Writing Program at NYU and resides in Astoria, Queens, with Jaclyn Watterson and three cats. Queen of Spades, his first novel, was published in 2017. His favorite Daphne du Maurier novel is The Parasites. We are thrilled is will be joining us in person.
Saturday, May 18, 2024
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.
"Writers Should Be Read" Summer Meeting in Michigan 2024
"Writers Should Be Read" Summer Meeting in Michigan 2024
"Writers Should Be Read" Summer Meeting in Michigan 2024
The Daphne du Maurier Society of North America will hold its annual reading retreat at Higgins Lake, Michigan. The afternoon will consist of coffee, treats, and discussion of "The Blue Lenses". Date, time and other details will be confirmed in due course.
Saturday, September 7, 2024
Saturday, September 7, 2024
"Writers Should Be Read" Summer Meeting in Michigan 2024
"I realized, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well. I was looking at myself."
"The Scapegoat"
Oral historian and writer Leonard Cox will discuss the use of male narrators in Daphne du Maurier’s works. Cox will reflect on how the author leads the reader through five of her seventeen novels and many of her short stories with the use of a male voice. Cox will ask the listener to contemplate whether du Maurier preferred the male voice, and if so, why? Was it because, as du Maurier explains in her biography, her father wanted a male child instead of Daphne? As a result, she wanted to be a boy and created an alter ego for herself – Eric Avon. Or was it because in many of her writings, she continuously made insightful “explorations of gender, examining the societal restrictions placed on women and the failings of a society steeped in masculinity…?” (Thorton, J. 2022) Cox will encourage an active discussion on these and other questions.
Saturday, September 7, 2024
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
5214 Palomar Lane
Dallas, TX 75229
Tea will be served.
Society members will be notified in due course if this meeting will be available by ZOOM.
Saturday, December 7, 2024
Saturday, September 7, 2024
Saturday, December 7, 2024
Our annual Christmas in Cornwall Luncheon (held in Dallas, Texas rather than Fowey, unfortunately) will feature Dr. Kate Aspengren who will present Rebecca: Stage & Screen.
Dr. Aspengren's plays include Flyer, Rule of Nines, Too Fast to Fall, Adrift and Blue Yonder. Her work has been published by Samuel French, Inc. and has been produced throughout the United States and Canada, including productions by Actors Theatre of Louisville, The New American Comedy Festival, Three Graces Theatre Company and Six Figures Theatre Company. She is the author of a middle grade novel Ashley Templeton is Ruining My Life.
Saturday, December 7, 2024
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.