Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi

CHAPTER I.

His Grandfather and Father--His Birth and first appearance at Drury Lane Theatre, and at Sadler's Wells--His Father's severity--Miss Farren--The Earl of Derby and the Wig--The Fortune-box and Charity's reward--His Father's pretended death, and the behaviour of himself and his brother thereupon.

The paternal grandfather of Joseph Grimaldi was well...