In this book, Bob Clarke examines the origination and development of the English newspaper from its early origin in the broadsides of the sixteenth century, through the burgeoning of the press during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to its arrival as a respectable part of the establishment in the nineteenth century. But Grub Street's vitality and its battles with authority laid the foundations of modern Fleet Street. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, journalists were held in low regard, even by their fellow journalists who exchanged torrents of mutual abuse in the pages of their newspapers. It was also a metaphor for journalists and other writers of ephemeral publications and, by implication, the infant newspaper industry. Grub Street was a real place, a place of poverty and vice.
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