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.
Professor:
The evidence linking this portrait to Jane Austen is not at all convincing. Sure, the painting has long been somewhat loosely connected to Austen's extended family and their descendents, but this hardly proves it's a portrait of Jane Austen as a teenager. The reading's arguments that the portrait is of Austen are questionable at best.
First, when the portrait was authorized for use in the 1882 publication of her letters, Jane Austen had been dead for almost 70 years. So the family members who asserted that the painting was Jane had never actually seen her themselves. They couldn't have known for certain if the portrait was of Austen or not.
Second, the portrait could very well be that of a relative of Austen's, a fact that would explain the resemblance between its subject and that of Cassandra's sketch. The extended Austen family was very large and many of Jane Austen's female cousins were teenagers in the relevant period or had children who were teenagers. And some of these teenage girls could have resembled Jane Austen. In fact, many experts believe that the true subject of the portrait was one of those relatives, Marianne Kempian, who was a distant niece of Austen's.
Third, the painting has been attributed to Humphrey only because of the style. But other evidence points to a later date. A stamp on the back of the picture indicates that the blank canvas, you know the actual piece of cloth on which the picture was painted, was sold by a man named William Legg. Record showed that William Legg did not sell canvases in London when Jane Austen was a teenager. He only started selling canvases when she was 27 years old. So it looks like the canvas was used for the painting at a time when Austen was clearly older than the girl in the portrait.
The article and lecture both deal with the professionally painted full-length portrait of the teenage girl claiming to be of famous English novelist Jane Austen. Whilst, The author thinks that the portrait is of Jane Austen for specific three reasons. However, The lecturer opposes the authors each claim. In his opinion, it is not of Jane Austen But might be of the other family members.
First of all, writer claimed that Austen family had clearly recognized the portrait as it is of Jane Austen. Furthermore, He states that the Janes family had endured to endorse the portrait as of Jane Austen for century of years of now. In contrast, The lecturer argues that when the extended family of the Jane claimed the portrait as of Jane herself, jane was already dead for 70 years. Additionally, he says that such claims of family members hardly proves that the painting is of the Jane Austen.
Secondly, the author states that face of painting clearly match with the sketch of the Cassandras. In top of that, he adds that the eyebrows, nose, mouth and overall shape is very much alike as of the full length portrait. However, The lecturer call this argument into question by saying that the family of the jane was large and her cousins mostly were teenage at time of painting . So, they may resemble the Jane. Further, He remarks that maria was a niece who fully resemble jane.
Finally, the author asserts that Humphrey, a professional portrait painter, was active during late 1780s and early 1790s which was the period when Jane Austen was age However, The lecturer oppose it and holds that Stamp in the back of painting has name of William who sold the painting when the Jane was 27 years old . This clearly says that Jane was not teenage when portrait was made.
Coming to end, Both author and lecture holds conflicting view on the depiction og Jane Austen in the portrairt.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, in contrast, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 12.0772626932 174% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
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: 1563.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 326.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.79447852761 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.34747188618 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.496932515337 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 463.5 419.366225166 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.4817579605 49.2860985944 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.6875 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.375 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.1875 7.06452816374 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.128005929328 0.272083759551 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0549852036268 0.0996497079465 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0358891646682 0.0662205650399 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0807091667129 0.162205337803 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0369429782716 0.0443174109184 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 13.3589403974 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 53.8541721854 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.5 12.2367328918 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.58 8.42419426049 90% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 63.6247240618 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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