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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)ent discussion.  Other men sit reading and smoking pipes, backs to the viewer.  In the foreground, a small serving boy pours coffee from a container into a cup.  In the distance, next to the fireplace, a woman serves from a hatch.|''The Coffeehous Mob'', [[Book frontispiece|frontispiece]] to [[Ned Ward]]'s ''Vulgus Britannicus'' (1710).  The fruits of the Grub Street publishers were read and debated in houses like this.<ref name="Clarkepp79"/>]]

Grub Street writers resided in the manyPublishing houses proliferated in Grub Street, and this, combined with the number of local [[Attic|garrets]]s&mdash;the clichéd retreat of the, meant that the area was an ideal home for hack writers.  In ''The Preface'', when describing the harsh conditions a writer suffered, [[Tom Brown (satirist)|Tom Brown]]'s <!-- (1663&ndash;1704) --> self-parody referred to being "Block'd up in a Garret".  Garrets provided a cheap sanctuary for writers, an [[Ivory Tower]] high above the noise of the city.<ref>{{Harvnb|Dawson|2005|pp=15&ndash;16}}</ref>  The proliferation of publish<ref>{{Harvnb|Dawson|2005|pp=15&ndash;16}}</ref>  Such contemporary views of the writer, in his inexpensive [[Ivory Tower]] high above the noise of the city, were immortalised by [[William Hogarth]] ing houses, garrets, and writers for hire, meant that tis 1736 illustration [[The Distrest Poet]].  The street name became a metaphorsynonym for a hack writer; in a literary context, 'hack' is derived from Hackney&mdash;a person whose services may be for hire, especially a literary drudge.<ref>{{Citation | title = hack | url = http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50101116?query_type=word&queryword=hack&first=1&max_to_show=10&sort_type=alpha&search_id=pcII-ki3vq4-2347&result_place=2 | publisher = dictionary.oed.com | accessdate = 2009-07-04}}</ref>  As a description of a writerIn this framework, hack was popularised by authors such as [[Andrew Marvell]],<ref name="Timbsp385"/> [[Oliver Goldsmith]],<ref>See ''The poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith''&nbsp;(1818)&nbsp;p.&nbsp;71</ref> [[John Wolcot]],<ref>See ''The works of Peter Pindar''&nbsp;(1812)</ref> and [[Anthony Trollope]].<ref>See ''The Belton estate''&nbsp;(1866)</ref>  [[Ned Ward]]'s late 17th-century d(contracted; show full)
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