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[[Image:GrubStreet-London 300dpi.jpg|250px|thumb|alt=People congregate at the entrance to a narrow street, overlooked by two four-storey buildings.  Each floor of the right-most building projects further over the street than the floor below.  At the corner of each building, shops advertise their wares.  A cart is visible down the street, and one man appears to be carrying a large leg of meat.|19th-century ''Grub Street'' (latterly Milton Street), as pictured in ''(contracted; show full)

According to [[Samuel Johnson]]'s ''Dictionary'', the term was "originally the name of a street... much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems, whence any mean production is called grubstreet." Johnson himself had lived and worked on Grub Street early in his career.  The contemporary image of Grub Street was popularised by [[Alexander Pope]] in his [[Dunciad]]. 

Grub Street has since bec
aome a pejorative term for "impoverished writers", "writings of low literary value", or "things written by men and women solely for the commission".

==Toponymy==
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[[Category:History of literature]]
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[[Category:Streets in the City of London]]

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