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 passage and lecture focus on the debate regarding the subject in the painting to be Jane Austen or not. The author provide three reasons to prove his claims. On the other hand, the speaker rebuts all of them and casts doubt upon the passage stating certain counterpoints.
First, from the author's point of view, Austen's family recognized the portait as of Austen and gave permission to use as an illustration in an edition of her letters in 1882. In contrast, the orater rebukes saying that when letters were published in 1882, Austen was already dead for 17 years. Her extended family might not have seen her themselves.
Second, the writer claims that the face in the portrait resembles with the cassandra's sketch besides it being of adult Austen, features of teengirl are similar to that of the adult Austen. Conversely, the speaker states that Austen was having a large family. Many of her teenage cousins might resemble with Austen. Two of them were mary and cathy, her distance female cousins.
Lastly, the text claims that eventhough the painting is unsigned and unpainted, its style resembles with Ozias Humphery, a professional portrait painter prefered by wealthy families. As he was active in late 1780s and early 1790s, when austen was the age of the girl mentioned in painting. In contrast, the lecturer affirm that stamp on the back of the painting clothhold signature of william league. He didnot sell his paintings in londonwhen Austen was teen. Instead he started selling his paintings when Austen was 27 years old.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 462, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Instead,
...aintings in londonwhen Austen was teen. Instead he started selling his paintings when A...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, conversely, first, lastly, regarding, second, so, in contrast, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 30.3222958057 122% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1291.0 1373.03311258 94% => OK
No of words: 258.0 270.72406181 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00387596899 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00778971557 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48120450966 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 145.348785872 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.612403100775 0.540411800872 113% => OK
syllable_count: 375.3 419.366225166 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.0328385202 49.2860985944 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.0666666667 110.228320801 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2 21.698381199 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.26666666667 7.06452816374 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.27373068433 257% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.117587034778 0.272083759551 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0432083646744 0.0996497079465 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0350047330095 0.0662205650399 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0732267975343 0.162205337803 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0357863877159 0.0443174109184 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 13.3589403974 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.42 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.01 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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