Can Readers Love a "Flawed" Hero?

When I was first conjuring the characters in Wicked Company and mulling over how I would weave both fictional and historical figures into the story of an 18th c.  woman playwright fighting to get her works written and performed at London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, I thought about some of the men of that era whose lives clearly could be fodder for a novelist's imagination and well as an historian's.
Take the 18th c. poet Robert Burns, for example, who figured... Read More...