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.
The reading and listening materials both discuss a possible portrait of Jane Austen. The reading, to be more specific, claims that the subject of the painting could perhaps be the female novelist. On the contrary, the professor holds a different idea and states that those evidences mentioned in the reading passage are rather unconvincing.
The reading begins by stating that the family of Jane Austen recognized the teenager in the portrait as the writer herself, This is challenged by the lecturer, who feels strong that this simple claim is not a strong enough evidence to proof its validity. He further explains that Jane Austen died seventeen years before the the authorization was made hence it is unlikely that the loosely connected family could have recognized her as they might not have seen her themselves.
The reading then points out that the girl in the portraits clearly bears resemblance to the sketch of the author by her sister Cassandra. The professor, in contrast, asserts that this could have been one of Austen's relatives who happened to look similar to her. He supports this by claiming that Jane Austen has many other female cousins, thus there is no certainty that the teenage girl in the picture was really her.
The reading finished by arguing that the style of the painting indicated that it was drew of Ozias Humphrey, who was active at the time Jane Austen was young. The professor runs against this idea, stating that other factors showed that it was another painter who drew this picture. Indeed, evidences shows that she were older at the time the painting was finished.
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Suggestion: drawn
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Discourse Markers used:
['hence', 'if', 'look', 'really', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'in contrast', 'on the contrary']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.243150684932 0.261695866417 93% => OK
Verbs: 0.174657534247 0.158904122519 110% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0616438356164 0.0723426182421 85% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0445205479452 0.0435111971325 102% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0513698630137 0.0277247811725 185% => OK
Prepositions: 0.133561643836 0.128828473217 104% => OK
Participles: 0.0445205479452 0.0370669169778 120% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.4658128875 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0171232876712 0.0208969081088 82% => OK
Particles: 0.00342465753425 0.00154638098197 221% => OK
Determiners: 0.154109589041 0.128158765124 120% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.013698630137 0.0158828679856 86% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.013698630137 0.0114777025283 119% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1613.0 1645.83664459 98% => OK
No of words: 270.0 271.125827815 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.97407407407 6.08160592843 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05360046442 4.04852973271 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.374074074074 0.374372842146 100% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.277777777778 0.287516216867 97% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.181481481481 0.187439937562 97% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.114814814815 0.113142543107 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4658128875 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 145.348785872 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.548148148148 0.539623497131 102% => OK
Word variations: 54.8837385737 53.8517498576 102% => OK
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0529801325 84% => OK
Sentence length: 24.5454545455 21.7502111507 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.7584246781 49.3711431718 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 146.636363636 132.220823453 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5454545455 21.7502111507 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.818181818182 0.878197800319 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.39072847682 88% => OK
Readability: 52.3232323232 50.5018328374 104% => OK
Elegance: 1.55696202532 1.90840788429 82% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.270798844291 0.549887131256 49% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.154434209717 0.142949733639 108% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0524579031258 0.0787303798458 67% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.707279312785 0.631733273073 112% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.0934673589566 0.139662658121 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.151531380436 0.266732575781 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0503514807627 0.103435571967 49% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.487060491457 0.414875509568 117% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0486669173585 0.0530846634433 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.209792161251 0.40443939384 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0290767103394 0.0528353158467 55% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.26048565121 141% => OK
Positive topic words: 3.0 3.49668874172 86% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.62251655629 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 6.0 3.1766004415 189% => OK
Total topic words: 11.0 10.2958057395 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.