Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]
… sides of the conflict to churn out pamphlets in quick succession. After the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, these factions were succeeded by the political parties that began to develop, and that continued to use – and pay – writers for … A Study of Sub-Literary London in the Eighteenth Century (London: Routledge, 1968), p. 3. Writing as a mercenary for a faction was one aspect of the negative connotations around the terms ‘Grub Street’ and ‘hack writer’, the other was …
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