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What are Frances Burney's journal-diaries?
Francis Burney kept a journal-diary as a form of correspondence with family and friends, recounting life events and her observations of them.
So Frances Burney never actually sent the letters from her journal diary?
Are there any other interesting aspects about Frances Burney's journal-diary?
Frances Burney's diary entries suggest that she had begun to feel pressure to abandon her writing.
Why did Frances Burney feel pressure to abandon writing?
Frances Burney's writings were possibly something unladylike that might vex Mrs. Allen, her father's new wife.

Question: Did she not like her stepmother?
Self-contained rewrite: Did Frances Burney not like her stepmother?