ane 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.
Last try:12/30/2020 12:13Word Count: 279
The reading states that there are three reasons which confim that the portrait of a teenaage girl can be subjected to Austen. The lecturer, however, finds the idea dubious and casts doubt on the reasons proposed by the reading pasage
The author argues that using this portrait in Austen's letters by her family members attest to the fact that she is the teenage girl in portrait. Conversely, the lecturer brings up the idea that authorizing the portrait to Austen had happened 70 years after her death, and the one who use this portrait as a picture of Austen, never seen her actually. So it is not accurate reason to attribute the girl in portrait to her.
Furthermore, the reading passage holds the view that the similarity of this portrait with Cassandar's painting of Austen in her teenage period, can be a reason to subject the portrait to Austen due to similarity of overall face shape. On the contrary, the professor underlines the fact that this portait may be the picture of one of Austen's relatives who was resembled to her. Some evidencde suggest that this is a portrait of Austen's niece, Mary.
Finally, the reading asserts that the style of the painting can be linked to one of society portrait painter who was active during the period when Austen was a teenage girl. In cotrast, the speaker dismisses this issue due to the fact that other evidences show that this portait has been painted when Austen was 27 years old. The bleck canvas on which the portrait is painted, linked to William leg who sold this canvas in london, when Austen was older than the girl in the portrait.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 101, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...can be linked to one of society portrait painter who was active during the period...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, conversely, finally, furthermore, however, may, so, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 7.30242825607 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 20.0 12.0772626932 166% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 5.01324503311 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1314.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 279.0 270.72406181 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.70967741935 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08696624509 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.36148225712 2.5805825403 92% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 145.348785872 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.483870967742 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 397.8 419.366225166 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => 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: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 58.3360094624 49.2860985944 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.4 110.228320801 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.9 21.698381199 129% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.2 7.06452816374 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.0829013662487 0.272083759551 30% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0434949974593 0.0996497079465 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0195251305455 0.0662205650399 29% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.056350684267 0.162205337803 35% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0289092984125 0.0443174109184 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.3589403974 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.99 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.33 12.2367328918 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 10.7273730684 163% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 18.0 11.2008830022 161% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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