''Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi'' is the 1838 autobiography of the pioneering nineteenth-century clown Joseph Grimaldi. It was edited by

Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...

who as a seven-year-old had first seen Grimaldi perform. Print, poster, advertisement (BM 1859,1210

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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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