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.
The passage states that the full-length portrait of a teenage girl owned by austin family member is believed to be of Jane Austen when she was a teenager. The passage provides three reasons to support this claim. However, the professor questions the claim and refutes each of the point.
First, the passage states that Austen family gave permission to use the same portrait in an edition of her letters, so it means that family members recognized the portrait to be of Jane Austen. The lecture refutes this point and says that, when the family members authorized this portrait, it was 70 years since the death of Jane Austen and family member may have never seen Jane Austen. Hence, family members cannot be certain that the portrait is of the author.
Second, the passage posits that the face in the portrait resembles to one of the cassandra's sketched and both the portrait and the sketch have similar features. However, the professor opposes this. The professor states that the extended family of Jane was very large and there is a possibility that the sketch drawn by Cassandra is of one of the cousins or niece of Jane Austen and not the author herself as the family members can have similar features.
Third, the passage says that even though the painting is unsigned and undated, there are evidences that it was drawn when Austen was a teenager as it links to the style of Ozais Humphrey who was likely hired by wealthy Austen family. The professor dismisses this point and says that the stamp which was at the back of canvas suggest that it was drawn by Artist called William in London. Professor furthers says that William didn't sell paintings in London when Austen was a teenager but started selling paintings when Austen was atleast 27 years old and not a teenager.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 13, column 425, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...n. Professor furthers says that William didnt sell paintings in London when Austen wa...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, may, second, so, third
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.4613686534 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 12.0772626932 166% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1483.0 1373.03311258 108% => OK
No of words: 309.0 270.72406181 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.79935275081 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.2948429774 2.5805825403 89% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 145.348785872 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.456310679612 0.540411800872 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 449.1 419.366225166 107% => 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: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.1735937801 49.2860985944 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.583333333 110.228320801 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.75 21.698381199 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.16666666667 7.06452816374 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0858509853766 0.272083759551 32% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0344349763721 0.0996497079465 35% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0324618323331 0.0662205650399 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0584084050236 0.162205337803 36% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0184799711022 0.0443174109184 42% => 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: 14.1 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.86 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.1 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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