Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi

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Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
Frontispiece, first edition of 1838
AuthorEdited: Charles Dickens ("Boz")
IllustratorGeorge Cruikshank
LanguageEnglish
GenreAutobiography
PublisherRichard Bentley; London
Publication date
1838 (in two volumes)
Publication placeEngland
Media typePrint (Hardback and Paperback)
Preceded byOliver Twist 
Followed byNicholas Nickleby 

Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi is the 1838 autobiography of the pioneering nineteenth-century clown Joseph Grimaldi. It was edited by Charles Dickens, who first saw Grimaldi perform when he was just seven years old.[1]

1838 Poster advertisement for Memoirs of Grimaldi

References

Notes

  • Charles Dickens, Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, Pushkin Press, London, 2008.
  • Richard Findlater, Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, MacGibbon & Kee, 1968.
  • Richard Findlater, Grimaldi: King of Clowns, 1955.

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