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Illustration of Grimaldi, frontispiece to his Memoirs, ca. 1838.

Featured on PDR in the essay The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi

Andrew McConnell Stott, author of The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, introduces the life and memoirs of the most famous and celebrated of English clowns.

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Joseph Grimaldi

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1838

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Memoirs

Source

Internet Archive / University of Toronto Libraries

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