Grub Street

starving artist

Poor creative professional

• garretSmall rooftop living space
• destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
• penuryExtreme lack of money

struggling · obscurity · threadbare · debtor · penniless · subsistence · hardship · misery · squalor · precarious

pamphleteer

Writer of political tracts

• satiristOne who mocks through wit
• essayistAuthor of short prose
• journalistNews profession practitioner

novelist · poet · critic · lexicographer · biographer · playwright · columnist · prose · verse · wit

penny-a-liner

Poorly paid writer

• potboilerWork made for money
• scribblerInferior or careless writer
• hack writerInferior commercial author

drudgery · piecework · second-rate · derivative · formulaic · uninspired · mediocrity · churning · deadline · commissions

Alexander Pope

Georgian era versifier

• Jonathan SwiftDublin's savage satirist
• City of LondonLondon's original walled settlement
• St. Paul's CathedralLondon's principal Anglican church

Daniel Defoe · Fleet Street · booksellers · coffeehouses · printing houses · eighteenth-century · Georgian · taverns · lodgings · attic

• NYC MediaNew York Times, New York Post, Daily News, New York Magazine, New Yorker
• 18th-century literaturegothic novel, heroic couplet, mock-heroic, neoclassicism, picaresque
• English LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Jane Austen, Bronte, Chaucer
• literary worldauthors, writers, poets, novelists, literary agents
• satirelampoon, parody, parody account, political satire, spoof
• Georgian BritainGeorge III, Walpole, Culloden, Georgian era, Regency period