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 states that cassandra's portait could be the subject of Jane Austen and provides three reasons of support. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. He explains that not at all the reasons are convincing and it is hard to prove that it is teenager Austen's painting and refutes each of the author's claims.
First of all, the author argues that Austin's family clearly recognized and then endorsed that this
is Austen's portait and gave permission to illustrated in an edition of her letter after several years Austen's death. This specific argument is challenegd by the lecturer. he says that her family gave permission after seventy years later her death. Thus her family could not recongnized her face and would not possible to found out this portait as a subnect of Austen or not.
Secondly, the article states that cassandarn's sketch feature have some similarity with
the teenage girl in the painting, though, Cassandra had sketch an adult jane Austen. The lecturer, however, rebuts this claim that Cassandra's sketch could resemble auten's others cousin faces. furthermore, the lecturer syas that Austen's have a lot of cousin and it is possibility that her some cousins face similiar with her , thus it could her cousin faces not her. and the lecturer says that Cassandra's skecth subject may be Austen's next door cousin face not her.
Finally, is was painting when Austen was a teenager because most strong evedence is the painting is unsigned and undated. In addition, the article says that Humphrey was hired by Austen's family and he was active when Austen was teenager, thus it indicate that this painting is Austen's face. In contrast, the lecturer position is that Humphrey those time sell some blank canvus and when Austen was 27 years old but the painting represent the teenager Austens so this contraduction indicates that this painting was not Austen's .
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, thus, in addition, in contrast, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 10.4613686534 191% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 22.412803532 183% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1591.0 1373.03311258 116% => OK
No of words: 313.0 270.72406181 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08306709265 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20616286096 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45194890117 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.492012779553 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 468.9 419.366225166 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => 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: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.0389598685 49.2860985944 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.642857143 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3571428571 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.85714285714 7.06452816374 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.09492273731 147% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 15.0 4.19205298013 358% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => 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: 0.128514154703 0.272083759551 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0491957603918 0.0996497079465 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0314481166822 0.0662205650399 47% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0656202736755 0.162205337803 40% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0234873400841 0.0443174109184 53% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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