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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)

One of Grub Street's early residents was the notable recluse [[Henry Welby]], the owner of the estate of [[Goxhill]] in [[Lincolnshire]].  In 1592 his half-brother attempted to shoot him with a pistol.  Shocked, he took a house on Grub Street and remained there, in near-total seclusion, for the rest of his life.  He died in 1636 and was buried at [[St Giles-without-Cripplegate|St Giles]] in Cripplegate.<ref>{{Citation | last = Souden | first = David |
 last2 = Harrison | first2 = B. | title = Welby, Henry (d. 1636) | publisher = oxforddnb.com | url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28978 | doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/28978 | year = 2004 | accessdate = 2009-07-04}}</ref>

(contracted; show full)o a deserving villain.  Meanwhile, Curll responded by publishing material critical of Pope and his religion.  The incident, meant to secure Pope's status as an elevated figure amongst his peers, created a lifelong and bitter rivalry between the two men, but may have been beneficial to both; Pope as the man of letters under constant attack from the hacks of Grub Street, and Curll using the incident to increase the profits from his business.<ref>{{Citation | last = MacKenzie | first = Raymond N. |
 last2 = Harrison | first2 = B. | title = Curll, Edmumd (d. 1747) | format= Registration required | publisher = oxforddnb.com | date = 2008-01 | url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6948 | doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/6948 | accessdate = 2009-07-08}}</ref>

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The avariciousness of the Grub Street press was often demonstrated in the manner in which they treated notable, or notorious public figures.  [[John Church (clergyman)|John Church]], an independent minister born in 1780, raised the ire of the local hacks when he admitted he had acted 'imprudently' following allegations he had sodomised young men in his congregation.<ref>{{Citation | last = Clement | first = Mark |
 last2 = Harrison | first2 = B. | title = Church, John (b. 1780) | publisher = oxforddnb.com | url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/58284 | year = 2004 | format = Registration required | doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/58284}}</ref>  Satire was a popular pastime&mdash;the [[Mary Toft]] affair of 1726, concerning a woman who fooled some of the medical establishment into believing she had given birth to rabbits&mdash;produced a notable dirge of diaries, letters, satiric poems, ballads, false confessions, cartoons, and pamphlets.&(contracted; show full)
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* {{Citation | last = Anon | title = The little London directory of 1677. The oldest printed list of the merchants and bankers of London. Reprinted from the exceedingly rare original; with an introduction pointing out some of the most eminent merchants of the period | url = http://www.archive.org/details/littlelondondire00lond | publisher = London : J. C. Hotten, hosted at www.archive.org | year = 1863 | origyear = 1677}}
* {{Citation | last = Bonomi | first = Patricia U. | title = The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics of Reputation in British America | url = http://books.google.co.uk/booksm/?id=wVjXbiyHnP4C | publisher = UNC Press | year = 2000 | isbn = 0807848697}}
* {{Citation | last = Clarke | first = Bob | title = From Grub Street to Fleet Street: an illustrated history of English newspapers to 1899 | url = http://books.google.co.uk/booksm/?id=7JUvRTXLvTgC | edition = Illustrated | publisher = Ashgate Publishing Ltd. | year = 2004 | isbn = 0754650073}}
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* {{Citation | last = Hillhouse | first = James T. | title = The Grub-Street Journal | url = http://books.google.co.uk/booksm/?id=4uwZ_1DB8l4C | publisher = Ayer Publishing | year = 1972 | isbn = 0405086210}}
* {{Citation | last = Ingelhart | first = Louis Edward | title = Press freedoms: a descriptive calendar of concepts, interpretations, events, and court actions, from 4000 BC to the present | url = http://books.google.co.uk/booksm/?id=2i22ocE1qM0C | publisher = Greenwood Publishing Group | year = 1987 | isbn = 0313256365}}
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* {{Citation | last = Mendle | first = Michael | editor = Jeremy D. Popkin | title = Media and revolution: comparative perspectives | work = Grub Street and Parliament | url = http://books.google.co.uk/booksm/?id=0Dc28u8Y-dEC | publisher = University Press of Kentucky | year = 1995 | edition = Illustrated | isbn = 0813118999}}
* {{Citation | last = Rogers | first = Pat | title = Hacks and dunces: Pope, Swift and Grub Street | url = http://books.google.co.uk/booksm/?id=zdwOAAAAQAAJ | publisher = Taylor & Francis | year = 1980 | isbn = 0416742408}}
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* {{Citation | last = Troyer | first = Howard W. | title = Ned Ward of Grub Street: A Study of Sub-Literary London in the Eighteenth Century | url = http://books.google.co.uk/booksm/?id=tFLvUt3vso4C | publisher = Routledge | year = 1968 | isbn = 0714615234}}
* {{Citation | last = Uglow | first = Jenny | editor = Jeremy Treglown & Bridget Bennett | title = Grub Street and the ivory tower: literary journalism and literary scholarship from Fielding to the Internet | url = http://books.google.co.uk/booksm/?id=z7FH-872u4QC | publisher = Oxford University Press | edition = Illustrated | year = 1998 | isbn = 0198184123}}
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==Further reading==
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*{{Citation | last = Swift | first = Jonathan | editor = Thomas Campbell | title = Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and an Essay on English Poetry | work = On Poetry.  A Rhapsody | url = http://books.google.co.uk/booksm/?id=ySrDKdY9FXAC | publisher = John Murray | year = 1819 | origyear = 1733 | page = 146}}
* {{Citation | last = Collins | first = A.S. | title = Authorship in the Days of Johnson: Being a Study of the relation between author, patron, publisher and public, 1726-1780 | url =  | edition = | publisher = Robert Holden | year = 1927 | isbn = }}
*[[Elizabeth Eisenstein|Eisenstein, Elizabeth]]. ''Grub Street Abroad: Aspects of the French Cosmopolitan Press from the Age of Louis XIV to the French Revolution'' (1992) 
*McDowell, Paula. ''The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730'' (1998)
* {{Citation | last = Pinkus | first = Philip | title = Grub St. stripped bare: The scandalous lives & pornographic works of the original Grub st. writers | url =  | publisher = Constable | edition = Illustrated | year = 1968 | isbn = 094514704}}
* {{Citation | last = Rogers | first = Pat | title = Grub Street: studies in a subculture | url = | publisher = Methuen | year = 1972 | isbn = 416116906}}
* {{Citation | last = Taylor | first = D. J. | title = The street of no shame | url = http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,6000,609871,00.html | publisher = books.guardian.co.uk | date = 2001-12-01 | accessdate = 2009-07-10}}
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