2025 Events
Sunday, February 2, 2025 The Birds on the Big Screen
Sunday, August 24, 2025 "Writers Should Be Read" Summer Meeting in Michig
Saturday, April 5, 2025 The Male Narrators in the Novel
No football to watch this weekend? Then bundle up and head to the Dallas Angelika for a big screen showing of Hitchcock's The Birds. Grab some popcorn and settle in to watch the 1963 classic story of a wealthy San Francisco socialite who pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town - a trip that slowly turns terrifying when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people. The film is based (loosely) on Daphne du Maurier's terrifying short story. Society President Shirley Kinney will lead a short post film discussion.
Sunday, February 2, 2025
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Dallas Angelika
5321 E Mockingbird Ln, Dallas, TX 75206-5185
Regretablly, ZOOM will not be available.
Saturday, April 5, 2025 The Male Narrators in the Novel
Sunday, August 24, 2025 "Writers Should Be Read" Summer Meeting in Michig
Saturday, April 5, 2025 The Male Narrators in the Novel
"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, April 5 , 2025
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.
Sunday, August 24, 2025 "Writers Should Be Read" Summer Meeting in Michig
Sunday, August 24, 2025 "Writers Should Be Read" Summer Meeting in Michig
Sunday, August 24, 2025 "Writers Should Be Read" Summer Meeting in Michig
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 Birds".
Sunday, August 24, 2025
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Cottage Grove Association Dining Hall
Saturday, October 11, 2025 The Birds
Saturday, December 6, 2025 The King's General
Sunday, August 24, 2025 "Writers Should Be Read" Summer Meeting in Michig
Daphne du Maurier Society member Ted Elrick will travel to Dallas to discuss our 2024 Short Story Study "The Birds". Ted is a freelance writer, an active member of the Writers Guild of America and Writers Guild of Canada, and also the Mystery Writers of America. Ted is a graduate of the American Film Institute Center for Advanced Film Studies and former long-time editor of the Directors Guild of America's magazine. He has a long list of publications and screenplays. The Birds was Ted's favorite Hitchcock movie growing up and he will provide his prospective on the short story and the changes Hitchcock made and why. We are thrilled that Ted is traveling to join us!
Saturday, October 11, 2025
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, December 6, 2025 The King's General
Saturday, December 6, 2025 The King's General
Saturday, December 6, 2025 The King's General
“The first thing I noticed was the clarity of the air, and then the sharp green colour of the land”
Our annual Christmas in Cornwall Luncheon (held in Dallas, Texas rather than Fowey, unfortunately) will feature Professor Margaret Mitchell who will travel to Dallas to do an in-depth dive of The King's General, a classic historical novel which explores the passionate love between Honor Harris and Richard Grenvile during the English Civil War. In a tale woven with tragedy and hope, Daphne du Maurier captures the essence of loyalty amid chaos. Not to be missed!
Saturday, December 6, 2025
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.