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… And indeed, writers and critics in the eighteenth century frequently compared writers to prostitutes, such as Ned Ward in 1698, who described the condition of an author as ‘very much like that of a Strumpet […] and if the reason be … (B.E., A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew (London: W. Hawes, 1699)). 4 . Quoted in Howard W. Troyer, Ned Ward of Grub Street: A Study of Sub-Literary London in the Eighteenth Century (London: Routledge, 1968), p. 3. Writing as …
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