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 article states that there was a portrait attributing to Jane Austen, a famous novelist in all England who her works are more popular now even than before, drawing by Jane's sister and provides three reasons for support. However, the professor explains that all of the evidence presented in the article are hardly true and refutes each of the author's reasons.
first, the reading claims that Austen's family promised to give a portrait of Jane Austen and approved that the girl painted in the portrait was Jane Austen. the professor opposes this point by saying that Austen's family who approved this painting were related to seventy years after she died. according to the professor, their family asserted abut this idea, neither seen her nor certain if she was.
second, the reading posits that the girl's face in the portrait and the painting provided by Cassandra were very resembled together. In contrast, the professor says that Austen's family were very large, and there were many children of the same age as Jane like her cousins. again, he states that it is very difficult to distinguish Jane's face among many children.
third, the reading says that there was a painter named Humphrey, and he worked on that specific period that Austen was the teenager. professor cast doubt on this point by saying that the convoys of the portrait were belonging to the latter date of Jane was teenage. that convoys have been sold by Milane Lege when Jane was 27 years old instead of a teenage old.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, second, so, third, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1249.0 1373.03311258 91% => OK
No of words: 255.0 270.72406181 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.89803921569 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99608801488 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.254762144 2.5805825403 87% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545098039216 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 380.7 419.366225166 91% => 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: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.8672664314 49.2860985944 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.545454545 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1818181818 21.698381199 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 7.06452816374 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 12.0 4.19205298013 286% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.146705075397 0.272083759551 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0586179464315 0.0996497079465 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0507414854609 0.0662205650399 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0948416555173 0.162205337803 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0415680092341 0.0443174109184 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.44 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => 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.