Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi

1838 autobiography of an English clown, edited by Dickens

Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi

Frontispiece, first edition of 1838

Author| Edited: Charles Dickens ("Boz")
Illustrator| George Cruikshank
Country| England
Language| English
Genre| Autobiography
Publisher| Richard Bentley; London

Publication date

| 1838 (in two volumes)
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]

1838 Poster advertisement for Memoirs of Grimaldi

## References[edit]

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[edit]

* 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[edit]

### Online Texts[edit]

* Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi at Internet Archive.

* Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi at Project Gutenberg

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