A week from today, Letters Blogatory celebrates its tenth birthday! I confess the anniversary snuck up on me. Ten years and thousands of posts later, I look back and realize just how important writing this blog has been to me, professionally and personally. On the personal side, it’s provided me an outlet to write every day. Ten years ago I had just recently read Brian Simpson’s chapter on Politics and Law in Elizabethan England: Shelley’s Case, which electrified me by revealing the human drama behind one of the driest of leading cases. I had started making notes and outlining a plot for a novel I was going to call Shelley’s Case, which would be the story of a contemporary lawyer named Shelley who, in…
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