Grub Street
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Grub Street was a street located in the Cripplegate Without suburb, immediately north of London's defensive wall. The street ran from Fore Street east of St Giles-without-Cripplegate, north to Chiswel
19th-century Grub Street (latterly Milton Street), as pictured in Chambers Book of Days
A late 18th-century illustration of a property on Sweedon's Passage, Grub Street
A copy of The Grub Street Journal lies at the writer's feet, in William Hogarth's The Distrest Poet. Set in a garret, the print has been described as a study of a typical Grub Street writer.
The Coffeehous Mob, frontispiece to Ned Ward's Vulgus Britannicus (1710). The fruits of the Grub Street publishers were read and debated in houses like this.
New Grub Street
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New Grub Street is a British novel by George Gissing published in 1891, which is set in the literary and journalistic circles of 1880s London. The story deals with the literary world that Gissing hims
Grub Street
…List of eighteenth-century British periodicals New Grub Street— a novel by George Gissing, set in late-19th-century London—which contrasts a pragmatic journalist with an impoverished writer and examines the tension…
New Grub Street by George Gissing, Penguin Classics edition 1985