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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 ''[[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&ndash;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&ndash;24}}</ref>

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* {{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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