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 reading passage and lecture discuss whether newly found portrait of the Austen family would be tenaged Jane Austen or not. The former argues that there were three evidence regarding this, but the latter refutes each of these points.
First of all, the auhor of the passage claims that the portrait would be the Jane Austen as her family members used this as an elabiration of her letters. However, the lecture contends that when the picture was sealed as an elaboration of Jane Austen's letter in 1882, it was already 70 years after her death. Therefore, many of the memebers who allowed it to use as an engraved to letter might not be seen her. Hence, it is not certain that it was the Jane Austen's younger age depicture.
Secondly, the text asserts that though cassandra sketched adult face of Jane Austen, the two pictures resembles the same face that is the eyebrows, nose, mouth, all were similar. In contrast, the listening claims that Austen family was extended, and many of her female cousins and nices looked same at youth especially, marry and campion.
In third, the reading passage states that styles of the painting showed that it was painted in 1780s to 1790s by Ozias Humphrey, and that period, Jane Austen was a young girl. On the other hand, the listening mentions that stamp which was in the back of blank canvas suggested that it was sold by Wiliam Leg in London. And, when he started to sell it, Jane Austen was 27 years old,and proved that it might not be the portrait of her younger age
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, look, regarding, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, in contrast, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => 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: 1257.0 1373.03311258 92% => OK
No of words: 269.0 270.72406181 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.67286245353 5.08290768461 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0498419064 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.20073093536 2.5805825403 85% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.553903345725 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 375.3 419.366225166 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => 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: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.3892107866 49.2860985944 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.272727273 110.228320801 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4545454545 21.698381199 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.7272727273 7.06452816374 166% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.118393467529 0.272083759551 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0511895098608 0.0996497079465 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0292694896396 0.0662205650399 44% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0755422752922 0.162205337803 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0286436076011 0.0443174109184 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.3589403974 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 53.8541721854 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.1 12.2367328918 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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