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[[File: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)tter, and raised their prices to absorb the tax.  Newspapers also used the extra space to introduce serials, hoping to hook readers into buying the next instalment.  The periodical nature of the Newspaper allowed writers to develop their arguments over successive weeks, and the newspaper began to overtake the pamphlet as the primary medium for political news and comment.<ref>{{Harvnb|Clarke|2004|pp=49&ndash;50}}</ref>

By the 1720s 'Grub Street' had grown from a simple street name
, to a term used to describefor all manner of low-level publishing.<ref>{{Harvnb|Keeble|Wheeler|2007|p=3}}</ref>  The popularity of [[Nathaniel Mist]]'s ''Weekly Journal'' gave rise to a plethora of new publications, including the ''Universal Spectator'' (1728), the [[Anglican]] ''Weekly Miscellany'' (1732), the ''Old Whig'' (1735), ''Common Sense'' (1737), and the ''Westminster Journal''.<ref>{{H(contracted; show full)
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