Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi by Charles Dickens.It is the autobiography of the 19th century clown Joseph Grimaldi. In September 1837, Wilks offered the Memoirs to Richard Bentley, editor of Bentley's Miscellany magazine. Bentley bought it, after obtaining the copyright to the Grimaldi property, but thought it was still too long and poorly edited, so he asked one of his favorite young writers, the novelist Charles Dickens, then twenty-five years old., edit and rewrite it. At first Dickens was unwilling to accept the work, and wrote to Bentley in October 1837: However, Bentley accepted Dickens's terms (a guarantee of three hundred pounds and an agreement to publish the book at once, and not in monthly numbers). Dickens signed a contract in November 1837 and completed the job in January 1838, primarily by dictation.Dickens seems to have never seen the original Grimaldi manuscript (which remained in the hands of the executor), but he only worked from the version of Wilks, who edited and rewritten it. Bentley published it in two eighth volumes in February 1838. Charles Dickens - Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870) was an English writer and social critic. Created some of the world's best-known fictional characters