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 set of materials, the author strongly postulates that the girl in the recently painted portrait is Jane Austen in her and provided three reasons to endorse his idea. On the other hand, the professor states that the portrait is not of Jane Austen and the pieces of evidence provided in the passage are not convincing and vastly questionable.
First and foremost, the passage begins by asserting that after several years death of Jane Austen's family approved the portrait to be published and recently verified that the girl in the portrait is Jane Austen. However, the professor tells us as the portrait published after the 70 years death of Jane Austen, the recent family members are descendants of her, who didn't see her personally, so they cannot authenticate the identification of her.
Secondly, the professor in the lecture focuses on details that there is no resemblance between Cassandra's sketch and portrait and Jane Austen had cousins of the same age at that time, the girl in the portrait may be one of them. The portrait has a great resemblance with a distant niece of Jane Austen named Mary. These claims deny the author's implication that there is a substantial resemblance between the sketch made by Jane Austen's sister and the portrait.
Ultimately, the article wraps its reasons by explaining that the portrait's style connected to Ozias Humphery who was working in the 1780s and 1790, the same period when the age of Jane Austen and girl in the painting was the same. The professor in the listening refutes this point by showing the inaccuracy of the author' that although the portrait's style resemblance to the Ozias Humphrey there was a ticket on the back of the canvas which connected it to William blake who was active in the era when Jane Austen was 27 years old, different to the age of the girl in portrait.
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'years'' or 'year's'?
Suggestion: years'; year's
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Suggestion: didn't
...ily members are descendants of her, who didnt see her personally, so they cannot auth...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...usten named Mary. These claims deny the authors implication that there is a substantial...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...as Humphery who was working in the 1780s and 1790, the same period when the age o...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 30.3222958057 148% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1522.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 316.0 270.72406181 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.8164556962 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21620550194 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60903855824 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 145.348785872 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.46835443038 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 469.8 419.366225166 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => 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: 35.0 21.2450331126 165% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 68.1077577569 49.2860985944 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 169.111111111 110.228320801 153% => OK
Words per sentence: 35.1111111111 21.698381199 162% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.77777777778 7.06452816374 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.11802872561 0.272083759551 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0661353403087 0.0996497079465 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0279878132787 0.0662205650399 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0834908082221 0.162205337803 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0324614857102 0.0443174109184 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.8 13.3589403974 141% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.41 53.8541721854 82% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 11.0289183223 143% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.27 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.87 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.0 10.498013245 152% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.2008830022 143% => 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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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.