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 and the lecture are both about Jane Austen who is known as an English novelist, however people do not have many records of what she looked like. The author of the passage believes that a teenage girl that portrait has come up for sale is Jane Austen and gives us several proves to his point of view, but the professor casts doubt on the claims made in the article.
Firstly, the author points out that the Austen family claimed that in the portrait is Jane Austen. This point is challenged by the professor who says that the novelist's family had never seen Jane Austen as it has been a long time, thus, they could not know who is in the portrait.
Secondly, the author contends that the face in the portrait resembles the one in Cassandra's sketch. However, the lecturer rebuts this argument, as she suggests there were a lot of teenager in Jane Austen family, that is why it is impossible to understand whose this portrait is.
Thirdly, the author of the reading states that the style which painter used is connected with the time when Austen was a teenager. The lecturer, on the other hand, posits that the picture was made when Austen was 27 years old as a stamp on the portrait shows it.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, look, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => 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: 995.0 1373.03311258 72% => OK
No of words: 219.0 270.72406181 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.54337899543 5.08290768461 89% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.84690116678 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.21520022312 2.5805825403 86% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.575342465753 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 301.5 419.366225166 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => 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: 39.7515722959 49.2860985944 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.375 110.228320801 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.375 21.698381199 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.125 7.06452816374 172% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.186708341773 0.272083759551 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0839063455437 0.0996497079465 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0697354186079 0.0662205650399 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109723889979 0.162205337803 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0671121684912 0.0443174109184 151% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.3589403974 102% => 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: 9.35 12.2367328918 76% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.64 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 37.0 63.6247240618 58% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 10.7273730684 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => 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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