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Grub Street Journal

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The Grub-Street Journal, published from 8 January 1730 to 1738, was a London weekly satirizing popular journalism and hack-writing in Grub Street. Largely edited by the nonjuror Richard Russel and the botanist John Martyn, it counted Alexander Pope among its contributors (though he disclaimed involvement), continuing the satirical project begun with The Dunciad; contemporary observers described the paper as inspired—and probably funded—by Pope in its first year. One of its targets was The Weekly Register, answered in a series of letters by the architect Batty Langley under the pseudonym “Hiram,” which defended Gothic architecture and praised Nicholas Hawksmoor.