Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi

Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi

Charles Dickens

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FörlagPushkin Press
ISBN9781908968586

In 1837 Charles Dickens, then twenty-five years old, was asked to 'tidy up' Joseph Grimaldi's autobiography – he ended up re-writing most of it. Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837), one of the greatest English clowns and pantomimes of all time, was born in London to an Italian ballet-master and a dancer in