Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]
… Chambers Book of Days’, The Book of Days, 1864. Abstract Grub Street was originally a real place, an existing street in London in the Cripplegate area, that derived its name from the refuse ditch (grub) that ran alongside. It had a high … for a specific kind of writer and writing. Though the actual street eventually disappeared in the restructuring of London and the social and economic conditions of authorship that the term implied evolved, the notion of Grub Street … to that new class of mercenary ‘writers for hire’. Originally, Grub Street was a real place, an existing street in London in the Cripplegate area, that derived its name from the refuse ditch (grub) that ran alongside. This and the …
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