Jane Austen (1775-1817) is one of the most famous of all English novelists, and today her novels are more popular than ever, with several recently adapted as Hollywood movies. But we do not have many records of what she looked like. For a long time, the only accepted image of Austen was an amateur sketch of an adult Austen made by her sister Cassandra. However recently a professionally painted, full-length portrait of a teenage girl owned by a member of the Austen family has come up for sale. Although the professional painting is not titled Jane Austen, there are good reasons to believe she is the subject.
First, in 1882, several decades after Austen's death, Austen's family gave permission to use the portrait as an illustration in an edition of her letters. Austen's family clearly recognized it as a portrait of the author. So, for over a century now, the Austen family itself has endorsed the claim that the girl in the portrait is Jane Austen.
Second, the face in the portrait clearly resembles the one in Cassandra's sketch, which we know depicts Austen. Though somewhat amateurish, the sketch communicates definite details about Austen's face. Even though the Cassandra sketch is of an adult Jane Austen, the features are still similar to those of the teenage girl in the painting. The eyebrows, nose, mouth, and overall shape of the face are very much like those in the full-length portrait.
Third, although the painting is unsigned and undated, there is evidence that it was painted when Austen was a teenager. The style links it to Ozias Humphrey, a society portrait painter who was the kind of professional the wealthy Austen family would hire. Humphrey was active in the late 1780s and early 1790s, exactly the period when Jane Austen was the age of the girl in the painting.
both, the lecture and the reading, talk about the identity of a young woman painted in a sketch, which is sold by a member of jane Austen's family. The reading affirms that the teenager is the novelists jane Austen, whereas the lecturer has a counter opinion. He explains that the evidences are not solid, and refutes each reason presented, casting doubts in the author's beliefs.
Firstly, the reading points out that in 1882 the jane's family authorized to use that portrait as an illustration in a new edition of jane's letters, which is an implicit recognition of authenticity for their part. However, the lecturer disproves this stating that the edition was published 70 years after jane death. therefore, it is impossible that none of them know her personally, consequently, they do not have elements to confirm the identity with accuracy, with which this argument falls apart.
Secondly, the text argues that the faces in the portrait and in the sketch, have details and characteristics which allow to affirm that both are the same person, even with the evident difference of age between them. Nonetheless, the professor mentions that the jane's family is a long one, with many young girls with almost the same age and genes, which could explain the similarities. In addition, experts affirm that the girl in the portrait is actually a jane's niece, Marianne Kempian, not the novelist.
Finally, the writer says that the portrait’s style and the period tie it to a society of portrait painters named Ozias Humphrey, who were the kind of professionals hired by a rich family like jane one. Notwithstanding, the lecturer highlights the weakness of this point noticing that the style is the only argument to support that affirmation, owing to the stamp in the back of the canvas confirm that it was commercialized when austen was 27-year-old. therefore, the portrait was made when she was an adult, not a teenager.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, consequently, finally, first, firstly, however, if, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, whereas, in addition, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 12.0772626932 182% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1640.0 1373.03311258 119% => OK
No of words: 320.0 270.72406181 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.125 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22948505376 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82008525747 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 145.348785872 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 487.8 419.366225166 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 52.9755577811 49.2860985944 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.666666667 110.228320801 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.6666666667 21.698381199 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.9166666667 7.06452816374 169% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.128823029738 0.272083759551 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0467213001092 0.0996497079465 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0334627421577 0.0662205650399 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0759307820713 0.162205337803 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0235253992331 0.0443174109184 53% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 13.3589403974 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.77 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.12 8.42419426049 108% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 63.6247240618 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.