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.
Both texts deal with the question of whether or not the portrait of Jane Austen is her. The text clearly states that it is the portrait of her for three reasons. In the lecture, however, the professor gives proof why it is not Jane Austen's portrait.
First, reading claims that her family gave permission to use her portrait on her letters and her family has endorsed the claim that the girl in portrait is Jane Austen. The professor refutes this point by saying that Jane Austen died almost 70 years ago when her family gave permission. He states that her family even have not seen her in her lifetime.
Second, the reading claims that her portrait perfectly resembles with Casandra's sketch. However, the lecturer says that Jane had a lot of female relatives and cousins, hence we do not know is Cassandra seen her in real life or not. According to the professor, the portrait is not Jane Austen's portrait.
Third, the reading passage says that her painting is unsigned and undated and it is the evidence that it was painted when Austen was a teenager. The professor opposes this point by explaining that Jane Austen's portrait sold to a man named William but he did not sell it in London, he revealed it only when she was 27 age, thus it is convincing that this portrait was painted in her teenage year or not.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 22, Rule ID: WHETHER[3]
Message: Wordiness: Shorten this phrase to the shortest possible suggestion.
Suggestion: whether; the question whether
Both texts deal with the question of whether or not the portrait of Jane Austen is h...
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Line 7, column 404, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...was painted in her teenage year or not.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, second, so, third, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 22.412803532 178% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 18.0 30.3222958057 59% => More preposition wanted.
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: 1088.0 1373.03311258 79% => OK
No of words: 235.0 270.72406181 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.62978723404 5.08290768461 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91531732006 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.32799017451 2.5805825403 90% => OK
Unique words: 117.0 145.348785872 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.497872340426 0.540411800872 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 322.2 419.366225166 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.8916287706 49.2860985944 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.9090909091 110.228320801 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3636363636 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 7.06452816374 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.149387554597 0.272083759551 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0749900102843 0.0996497079465 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0236861586596 0.0662205650399 36% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104730666991 0.162205337803 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0251724150573 0.0443174109184 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 13.3589403974 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 53.8541721854 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.57 12.2367328918 78% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.7 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 45.0 63.6247240618 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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