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Bad-Ass Women: Meet The First Best Selling Novelist Susanna Haswell

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Susanna Haswell had what could be called an interesting upbringing. Susanna popped out of her mom in 1762, in Plymouth, England. A couple years later, her mother kicked the bucket, so dear old dad decided it would be a fabulous idea to move to Boston, Massachusetts.

Her dad picked a pretty dumb job, at the time & place… Ordinarily his choice would have garnered ill-sentiment… But when you take into account the whole “the British suck!” attitude in Colonial America at the time, it was just a bad, BAD choice: He became a [...]

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