Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi

Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
	Frontispiece, first edition of 1838
Author	Edited: Charles Dickens ("Boz")
Illustrator	George Cruikshank
Language	English
Genre	Autobiography
Publisher	Richard Bentley; London
Publication date	1838 (in two volumes)
Publication place	England
Media type	Print (Hardback and Paperback)
Preceded by	Oliver Twist
Followed by	Nicholas 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]

References

^ 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.

External links

Online Texts

Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi at Internet Archive.

Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi at Project Gutenberg

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[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.

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