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
In the given set of materials, the reading passage discuss the well-known novelist Jane Austen and a portrait of a girl which was claimed to be her. Based on the arguments of Austen's family claim, a close similarity with the one in Cassandra's sketch, and the sketch connecting to Ozias Humphrey, the author supports his claim that the painting was teenage Austen. However, the lecturer refutes the author's claim stating that the mentioned points are not convincing.
First, the passage mentioned that many decades after Austen's death, in the year 1882, her family authorised to utilise her portrait to be illustrated in her letters. Her family confirmed that the portrait was of the writer. However, the lecturer highlights the shortcomings of this theory. He mentioned that the painting was allowed to be published 18 years after the death of the author. So, even the extended family members of the author couldn't have remembered the sketch accurately.
Secondly, the author detailed the resemblance of the face in the painting to Cassandra's painting, which was of an adult Austen. However, the speaker highlights that there could be a resemblance to Cassandra's sketch but the extended family members of the novelist was colossal.Especially, many of the females were teenager by then, who could have si,liar features.Hence, that cannot be considered an authentic evidence.
Finally, the author in the passage supported his claim by mentioning Ozias Humphrey, a professional painter. The sketch linked to the style of Humphrey. However, the orator points out that not only Humphrey but others during later dates also used the similar style. He further added the cloth piece on which the sketch was made was not sold as early as when the novelist was 27 years old. Therefore, when the sketch was painted, the novelist must have been an adult and not a teenager.
In conclusion, the reading passage and the lecture discuss a sketch of the famous novelist Jane Austen. Although the passage supports its claim that the sketch was of teenage Austen, the lecturer rebuts each of its claims by highlighting valid reasons and evidences.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, hence, however, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, well, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.4613686534 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => 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: 1793.0 1373.03311258 131% => OK
No of words: 348.0 270.72406181 129% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15229885057 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7735750675 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.468390804598 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 535.5 419.366225166 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 15.0 8.23620309051 182% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.1149677877 49.2860985944 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.470588235 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4705882353 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.94117647059 7.06452816374 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
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: 0.0932454188904 0.272083759551 34% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0354993820384 0.0996497079465 36% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0357584508606 0.0662205650399 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0609906885243 0.162205337803 38% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0174589904811 0.0443174109184 39% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 63.6247240618 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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