Show crul street london lo 10 ado up to the seventeenth seventeen t 1 1 century grub street was on the outskirts s of bondon it was a street tenanted ten anted by ba lawyers fletch ers makers of bowstrings and everything every thine else that appertained to archery later on john fox lived in grub street though he be did not write baij bij hl famous hook book of mar tyre there foxs coxs residence in gt ab street occurred about 1573 jolin John speed the tailor was a resident of grub street where lie was famous as the most re sible parent family of twelve bons and six daughters daug liters grub street of old nod hod milton street today Is 13 noted for its great number of alleys and courts from grub street issued such famous old literary skits as jack the giant killer tom the wise aien men of gotham and score of others now a part of every boys library probably literary men art began to populate grub street in any numbers during luring time then ft great number of seditious ami arol libelous pamphlets were circulated and as the authors for safety had bad to beck seek obscure living places they found a fitting retreat in the maze of alleys which webbed the grob grub barett section at any rate by the commencement of the eighteenth century grub direct street had bad become quite notorious as us the poor peor authors quarter of london all the authors except a very favored few were poor then the life of a grub street author was that of a modern tramp only be he did more work and obtained fewer square meals but they were true bohe mians always collector |