Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
Frontispiece, first edition of 1838
AuthorEdited: Charles Dickens ("Boz")
IllustratorGeorge Cruikshank
CountryEngland
LanguageEnglish
GenreAutobiography
PublisherRichard Bentley; London
Publication date
1838 (in two volumes)
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

  1. Forster, John (2006) [1872–1874]. Life of Charles Dickens. London: Diderot Publishing. p. 65. ISBN 978-90-77932-03-2. Archived from the original on 21 September 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.

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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