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 reading believes the character in a specific portrait is Jane Austen from three aspects. However, the lecture disagrees with those opinions and proposes different ideas.
Firstly, the reading mentions that the cover of a book including Jane's letters published by the Austen family in an edition can prove the cover's portrait is Jane Austen. Instead, the book was published when Jane had dead more than seventy years which makes the evidence convincing states by the lecture.
Moreover, the lecture claims that the teenage girl in the portrait can be any girl in the Austen family since the family had a huge scale and there were many girls sharing the same age with Jane Austen then. In fact, research indicates the girl in the portrait is a girl named Maria who was one of Jane's relatives.
Lastly, the reading declares the style of the portrait is similar to Humphrey's. It is possible that such a famous family would hire a society painter albeit the portrait is unsigned and undated. The lecture rebuts this view since it is not trustworthy if only depend on the similarity. on the contrary, study shows the portrait was made by another painter called William in London. And the year when the portrait was created had Jane turned to twenty seven. It is a stronger prove that the young girl in the portrait is not based on the image of Jane Austen.
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'covers'' or 'cover's'?
Suggestion: covers'; cover's
...sten family in an edition can prove the covers portrait is Jane Austen. Instead, the b...
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Suggestion: On
...orthy if only depend on the similarity. on the contrary, study shows the portrait ...
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Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: twenty-seven
...portrait was created had Jane turned to twenty seven. It is a stronger prove that the young ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, moreover, so, then, in fact, 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: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 22.412803532 40% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1122.0 1373.03311258 82% => OK
No of words: 236.0 270.72406181 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.75423728814 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91947592106 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.32765618984 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.533898305085 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 354.6 419.366225166 85% => 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: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.2455516658 49.2860985944 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.5 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6666666667 21.698381199 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.16666666667 7.06452816374 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.1043821112 0.272083759551 38% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0400252975441 0.0996497079465 40% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0246838661377 0.0662205650399 37% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0688671090922 0.162205337803 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0161567740937 0.0443174109184 36% => 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: 10.8 13.3589403974 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.27 12.2367328918 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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