My Father as I Recall Him

The following is a biography of Charles Dickens, written by his eldest daughter, Mary 'Mamie' Dickens. Mary was one of the two daughters who decided to live with her father after her mother separated from him. She began her recollection of him through the following paragraph: "If, in these pages, written in remembrance of my father, I should tell you my dear friends, nothing new of him, I can, at least, promise you that what I shall tell will be told faithfully, if simply, and perhaps there may be some things not familiar to you."