Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi

{{Short description|1838 autobiography of an English clown, edited by Dickens}}

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| name = Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi

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| image = Grimaldimemoirs front.jpg

| caption = Frontispiece, first edition of 1838

| author = Edited: Charles Dickens ("Boz")

| illustrator = George Cruikshank

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| country = England

| language = English

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| genre = Autobiography

| publisher = Richard Bentley; London

| release_date = 1838 (in two volumes)

| media_type = Print (Hardback and Paperback)

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| preceded_by = Oliver Twist

| followed_by = Nicholas Nickleby

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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.{{cite book |title=Life of Charles Dickens |last=Forster |first=John |author-link=John Forster (biographer) |publisher=Diderot Publishing |location=London |year=2006 |page=65 |orig-year=1872–1874 |isbn=978-90-77932-03-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P6q4kaimO0AC&pg=PA27 |access-date=2 July 2015 |archive-date=21 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921155109/https://books.google.com/books?id=P6q4kaimO0AC&pg=PA27 |url-status=live }}

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