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 and lecture discuss whether the Jane Austen (1775-1817) was the woman in the portrait owned by a family member of the Austen family. The former argues that there are three reasons to prove the claim that it was portrait of Austen, but latter challenges each of these points.
First of all, the author in passage asserts that the teenager girl in portrait is indeed Jane Austen as the family of Austen supports the claim by recognizing the portrait. However, the professor in lecture contends that it is hard to believe that the person in portrait is Jane Austen because the writer had been dead for nearly 70 years when the family decided to endorse an authencity of the painting. This lacks credibility as the people endorsing the portrait might not even have ever seen Jane Austen as a teenager.
Secondly, according to the passage, the expert opined that in one of Cassandra's sketches resembles to the portrait which asserts as teenager Jane Austen. In contrast, the lecture strongly objects this idea. He supports his argument by presenting example her extended family where portrait was compares with her cousins, but it was totally distinct from her relative Marie and campion.
Finally, the passage claims that the style of one of portrait painter who linked with Jane Austen family between late 1780 and early 1790s was active exactly when Jane was teenager, which proves that portrait was of Jane Austen. Nevertheless, like two suggestions before, the professor in his lecture proclaims that this recommendation is not feasible because the Humphrey sold his canvas when Jane Austen was 27, but not when she was teenager which clearly gives evidence that the portrait was not of jane Austen.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, then, as to, in contrast, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => 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: 1439.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 287.0 270.72406181 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01393728223 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42780895754 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 145.348785872 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.515679442509 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 434.7 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0662251656 77% => 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: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 62.3390728195 49.2860985944 126% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.9 110.228320801 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.7 21.698381199 132% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.4 7.06452816374 147% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.139781287942 0.272083759551 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.066896478276 0.0996497079465 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0324123535268 0.0662205650399 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0962060518065 0.162205337803 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00987484808705 0.0443174109184 22% => 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: 16.5 13.3589403974 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 53.8541721854 96% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.37 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => 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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