In France, the established men of letters (gens de lettres) had fused with the elites (les grands) of French society by the mid-18th century. This led to the creation of an oppositional literary sphere, Grub Street, the domain of a "multitude of versifiers and would-be authors". These men came to London to become authors, only to discover that the literary market simply could not support large numbers of writers, who, in any case, were <answer>very poorly</answer> remunerated by the publishing-bookselling guilds.
Were men travelling to London to become authors paid well or poorly by the publishing-bookselling guilds?
very poorly