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.
Recently, there has been a ton of debate so as to the portrait of a teenage girl owned by a member of the Austen family is the portrait of Austen. More specifically, in regards to the reading text, the writer puts forth his idea that the Austen is the subject of the portrait and explains the reason behind his thought. In the listening, the lecturer is quick to point out that there are some significant flaws in the writer's claim. In fact, the lecturer believes that the reasons or the evidence linked to this claim are not at all convincing, and addresses, in detail, the trouble with point made in the reading text,
To begin with, the writer claims that as the Austen's family allowed to use the portrait as a representation of her earlier, so they recognize her better and they also claims the girl in the portrait is Austen. In the listening, the lecturer stands in firm opposition to this claim. He challenges this argument by mentioning that Austen was only seventy years old when the picture was published in 1882. Moreover, the family member who claims that the girl in the picture is Austen has never seen Austen back then as he or she is much younger than her. Therefore, he thinks that this claim may not be correct.
Secondly, the writer posits that the face of the girl in the portrait clearly resembles the one in the Cassandra's sketch which was the face of an adult Austen. In the listening, the lecturer rebuts this argument by asserting that the extended family of Austen was very large and her cousins was of same age and look alike, as Austen back then when the painting was made, Moreover, he further elaborates that according to the new research, the true subject of the image was one of her relative only,
Finally, the author states that the portrait was made by an artist who was hired by the Austen's family when Jane Austen was the age of the girl in the portrait. Not surprisingly, the lecturer finds issue with this by contending that this would be wrong to tell the girl is Jane just based on the style. Moreover, according to recent evidence, the stamp on the back side of the picture represents that the black canvas which was being sold in London, when Austen was much younger than the girl in the portrait.
To sum up, the lecturer and the author hold conflicting views on this.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 42, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...ecently, there has been a ton of debate so as to the portrait of a teenage girl owned by...
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Line 1, column 167, Rule ID: IN_REGARD_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'regarding' or 'with regard to'.
Suggestion: regarding; with regard to
... portrait of Austen. More specifically, in regards to the reading text, the writer puts forth...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...n detail, the trouble with point made in the reading text, To begin with, the ...
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Line 3, column 69, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[2]
Message: Did you mean 'using'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'allow' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: using
...aims that as the Austens family allowed to use the portrait as a representation of her...
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Message: The pronoun 'they' must be used with a non-third-person form of a verb: 'claim'
Suggestion: claim
...they recognize her better and they also claims the girl in the portrait is Austen. In ...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...llenges this argument by mentioning that Austen was only seventy years old when t...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...hat the face of the girl in the portrait clearly resembles the one in the Cassand...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, if, look, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, as to, in fact, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 10.4613686534 239% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 12.0772626932 174% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 22.412803532 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 58.0 30.3222958057 191% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1912.0 1373.03311258 139% => OK
No of words: 417.0 270.72406181 154% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.58513189448 5.08290768461 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5189133491 4.04702891845 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38885996756 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 145.348785872 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.429256594724 0.540411800872 79% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 574.2 419.366225166 137% => 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: 14.0 8.23620309051 170% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 2.5761589404 349% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 32.0 21.2450331126 151% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 125.757774119 49.2860985944 255% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 147.076923077 110.228320801 133% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.0769230769 21.698381199 148% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.53846153846 7.06452816374 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 4.19205298013 167% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.105378326979 0.272083759551 39% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0392320584644 0.0996497079465 39% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0319849289852 0.0662205650399 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.05898894521 0.162205337803 36% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0318309425522 0.0443174109184 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 13.3589403974 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.92 53.8541721854 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.93 12.2367328918 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.76 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 10.498013245 141% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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