Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]
… first authors to become financially independent through his pen, albeit not yet by creating a popular success like the novels by Defoe or Richardson, which made their authors money without resorting to the residual patronage that is still … hand continued to exist (and does so until today), most famously expressed in the nineteenth century by George Gissing’s novel New Grub Street . In this novel, Grub Street has evolved into an industry with tight structures and entrenched hierarchies that are antithetical to …
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