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==Legacy==
As Grub Street became a metaphor for the commercial production of printed matter, it gradually found use in early 18th-century [[United States|America]].  Early publications such as handwritten ditties and squibs were circulated among the [[gentry]] and taverns and coffee-houses.  As in England, many were directed at politicians of the day.<ref>{{Harvnb|Bonomi|2000|p=120}}</ref>

==See also==
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* [[Grub Street in France]]⏎
* [[List of eighteenth-century British periodicals]]
* ''[[New Grub Street]]'' — a novel by [[George Gissing]], set in late-19th-century London—which contrasts a pragmatic journalist with an impoverished writer and examines the tension between commerce and art in the literary world.
* [[The Grub Street Opera]]
* [[Ernest Bramah]] — a Grub Street author.
* [[Tobias Smollett]]
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==References==
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[[Category:History of literature]]
[[Category:Phrases]]
[[Category:Streets in the City of London]]

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