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 claims that the subject of a full length portrait of a teenage girl owned by a member of the Austen family is Jane Austen. However, the lecture casts doubt on the claim made in the passage. Instead, the lecture asserts that the subject is not Jane Austen.
First of all, the passage states that the Austen family has endorsed the claim that the girl in the portrait is Jane Austen. Nevertheless, the lecture counters the claim by arguing that it had been seventy years passed since Jane Austen died to 1882. Therefore, most of Austen's family may not have seen Austen themselves.
Secondly, the passage mentions that the subject in the portrait resembles the one in Cassandra's sketch, the sketch of adult Austen. Yet the lecture refutes the passage by contending that Austen had a large family. Therefore, the teenage girl in the portrait could be Austen's cousins.
Finally, the passage argues that the portrait's style links to Ozias Humphrey, a portrait painter who was active in the late 1780s and early 1790s, and was kind of painter that Austen family would hire. However, the lecture points out that one of the furniture appeared in the portrait was sold to Austen's family when Austen was twenty seven years old. Thus, Austen was much older than the teenage girl in the painting.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 329, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: twenty-seven
... sold to Austens family when Austen was twenty seven years old. Thus, Austen was much older ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, may, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, kind of, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 12.0 22.412803532 54% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => 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: 1084.0 1373.03311258 79% => OK
No of words: 223.0 270.72406181 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.86098654709 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.86434787811 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.26488032382 2.5805825403 88% => OK
Unique words: 106.0 145.348785872 73% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.47533632287 0.540411800872 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 321.3 419.366225166 77% => 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: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => 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: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.964518743 49.2860985944 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.3333333333 110.228320801 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5833333333 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.66666666667 7.06452816374 123% => OK
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: 0.107003455744 0.272083759551 39% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0540262622214 0.0996497079465 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0330395372772 0.0662205650399 50% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0774769951305 0.162205337803 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0291885400434 0.0443174109184 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.3589403974 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 53.8541721854 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 11.0289183223 72% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.29 8.42419426049 87% => OK
difficult_words: 39.0 63.6247240618 61% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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