Difference between revisions 121782384 and 121782386 on dewiki{{Other uses}} [[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 ''[[Chamb(contracted; show full)n 1651 the poet [[Thomas Randolph (poet)|Thomas Randoph]] wrote "Her eyes are Cupid's Grub-Street: the blind archer, Makes his love-arrows there."<ref>{{Harvnb|Stow|1908|pp=356–374}}</ref> ''The little London directory of 1677'' lists six merchants living in 'Grubſreet', and [[Costermonger]]s also plied their trade—a Mr Horton, who died in September 1773, earned a fortune of £2,000 by hiring wheelbarrows out.<ref>{{Harvnb|Anon|1863|p p=33, 85, 109, 120, 126, 127}}</ref><ref name="Dentonp174">{{Harvnb|Denton|1883|p=174}}</ref> Land was cheap and occupied mostly by the poor, and the area was renowned for the presence of [[Fever|Ague]] and the [[Black Death]]; in the 1660s the [[Great Plague of London]] killed nearly eight thousand of the parish's inhabitants.<ref name="Rogerspp2324">{{Harvnb|Rogers|1980|pp=23–24}}</ref> (contracted; show full) * {{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}} {{refend}} {{Coord|51|31|13|N|0|05|27|W|type:landmark_region:GB|display=title}} [[Category:History of literature]] [[Category:English phrases]] [[Category:Streets in the City of London]] [[da:Grub Street]] [[fr:Grub Street]] [[ml:ഗ്രബ് സ്ട്രീറ്റ്]] All content in the above text box is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license Version 4 and was originally sourced from https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=121782386.
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