'A trivia question. Name a female author who sells like crazy ... and whose fans, mostly women, sometimes work out in sweatshirts emblazoned with her name. Hint. The first name is Jane. No, not Jane Fonda , Jane Austen. '
(from a cover story in The Wall
Street Journal, US Edition)
Each autumn, members of the Jane Austen Society of North
America meet for their Annual National Conference to discuss one of Miss Austen's novels. Last year they focused on Northanger Abbey in the historic city of Savannah, Georgia.
Jean Snedegar was there. Producer SUSAN SNAlLUM
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 10.45am)