Notes & Essays
—original scholarship by Grub Street contributors
Grub Street
The Grub Street Myth, by Pat Rogers
Owls, Print Culture, and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Britain: the Iconography of Grub Street, by Allison Muri
History and Culture of London
Frost Fairs, by Pat Rogers
The Marriage Act of 1753, by Pat Rogers
The Royal Academy of Music, by Pat Rogers
The Stationers' Company, by Pat Rogers
The York Buildings Company, by Pat Rogers
London and its Environs
Bolt Court, Samuel Johnson in, by Pat Rogers
Chiswick House, by Pat Rogers
Cuper's Gardens, by Paul F. Rice
Fleet Ditch, by Pat Rogers
Gough Square, Samuel Johnson in, by Pat Rogers
Hampstead Wells, by Paul F. Rice
Keith's Chapel, by Pat Rogers
Marylebone Gardens, by Paul F. Rice
Ranelagh Gardens, by Paul F. Rice
Stationers' Hall, by Pat Rogers
Vauxhall Gardens, by Paul F. Rice
White Conduit House, by Paul F. Rice
Extracts from Daniel Defoe’s Account of London
selected by Pat Rogers
Introduction and Table of Contents
People of London
John Arbuthnot (1667–1735), by Pat Rogers
Thomas Augustine Arne (1710–1778), by Paul F. Rice
Mary Astell (1668–1731), by Sharon L. Jansen
Thomas Attwood (1765–1838), by Paul F. Rice
Martha Blount (1690–1763), by Pat Rogers
Sir John Blunt (1665–1733), by Pat Rogers
William Boyce (1711–1779), by Paul F. Rice
Richard Boyle, third Earl of Burlington (1694–1753), by Pat Rogers
Isaac Brandon (1769–1847), by Philip Trotter
John Broughton (1704–8 January 1789), by Allison Muri
Charles Burney (1726–1814), by Paul F. Rice
Frances Burney (1752–1840), by Peter Sabor
Edmund Curll (1683–1747), by Pat Rogers
Daniel Defoe (ca. 1660–1731), by Pat Rogers
Arabella Fermor (ca. 1689–1738), by Pat Rogers
Sarah Fielding (1710–1768), by Matthew Risling
Celia Fiennes (1662–1741), by Pat Rogers
James Figg (d. 8 December 1734), by Allison Muri
Ann Fisher (1719–1778), by Carol Percy
Eliza Haywood (ca. 1695–1756), by Allison Muri
James Hook (1746–1827), by Paul F. Rice
Theodore Edward Hook (b. 1788), by Paul F. Rice
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), by Nicholas Hudson
Michael Kelly (1762–1826), by Paul F. Rice
Thomas Linley (1756–1778), by Paul F. Rice
Bernard Lintot (1675–1736), by Pat Rogers
John Moore (d. 1737), by Pat Rogers
Anne Oldfield (1683–1730), by Pat Rogers
John Oldmixon (1673–1742), by Pat Rogers
Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741–1821), by Sharon L. Jansen
Alexander Pope (1688–1744), by Donald W. Nichol
Edith Pope (1643–1733), by Allison Muri
Sarah Popping (d. 1728), by Allison Muri
Matthew Prior (1664–1721), by Pat Rogers
Thomas Roseingrave (1690/91 – 1766), by Paul F. Rice
Margaret Caroline Rudd (1745–1798), by Pat Rogers
Elkanah Settle (1648–1724), by Pat Rogers
William Shield (1748–1829), by Paul F. Rice
John Christopher Smith (1712–1795), by Paul F. Rice
John Stanley (1712–1786), by Paul F. Rice
Anna Selina Storace (1765–1817), by Paul F. Rice
Stephen Storace (1762–1796), by Paul F. Rice
Mary Toft (1701–1763), by Pat Rogers
William Woodfall (1745–1803), by Leslie Ritchie
Lady Mary Wortley Montague (1689–1762), by Isobel Grundy
Anne-Marie de Fauques de La Cépèdes de Vaucluse de Starck (1720–1804), by Isabelle Tremblay