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Author | Edited: Charles Dickens ("Boz") |
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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]