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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 ''[[Chambers Book of Days]]'']]
Until the early 19th century, '''Grub Street''' was a street close to [[London]]'s impoverished [[Moorfields]] district that ran from Fore Street east of [[St Giles-without-Cripplegate]] north to Chiswell Street. Famous for its concentration of impoverished '[[hack writer]]s', aspiring poets, and low-end publishers and booksellers, Grub Street existed on the margins of London's journalistic and literary scene. It was pierced along its length with narrow entrances to alleys and courts, many of which retained the names of early signboards. Its [[Bohemianism|bohemian]] society was set amidst the impoverished neighbourhood's low-rent flophouses, brothels, and coffeehouses. 

According to [[Samuel Johnson]]'s ''[[A Dictionary of the English Language|Dictionary]]'', the term was "originally the name of a street... much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems, whence any mean production is called grubstreet." Johnson himself had lived and worked on Grub Street early in his career.  The contemporary image of Grub Street was popularised by [[Alexander Pope]] in his [[Dunciad]]. 

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