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Thur Mar 17, 2011 Mister Ron’s Basement # 1897 March is Women’s History Month! In celebration, we are reading fun stories by 19th and early 20th Century women writers! We have always enjoyed Kate Sanborn’s pieces in the Basement. She was the author of the 19th Century book ‘The Wit of Women,’ and was very much ahead of her time. In the years following the Civil War, women drastically outnumbered men in the U. S., and this went on for decades. Kate Sanborn examines this issue with her own witty outlook in the 1883 story, ‘The Conundrum of the Nineteenth Century.’ *Today’s episode was uncovered via one of the many GALE Databases that can be accessed through school and public libraries across the nation. Ask your librarian about them. Time: approx eleven minutes The Mister Ron’s Basement Catalog can be found at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html *There is a nifty interview with Mister Ron in issue #59 iProng Magazine (now known as Beatweek Magazine) which can be downloaded at a new UR