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 writing claims that the portrait that Austen's family has come up for sale is definitely of Jane Austen. The believes if for several reasons presented in the writing. The lecturer disagrees. He says that there is not enough evidence to support the claim and attacks each of the claim made in the writing.
The writer mentions that Austin's family can identify and endorses that the painting is of Austin, therefore it should be believed. The lecturer on the other hand, believes that the claim of the Austin's family is questionable. He says, Jane has died a long time ago and her family has not seen her themselves therefore their attestation cannot be considered as proof.
The writing states that, as the painting of the teenage girl has similar features as Austin such as nose, face shape and eyes, hence it is her painting. The lecturer denies this assertion by stating that many relatives of Austin had similar facial features, hence this could be a painting of anyone from the family. He goes on to say that some experts believe that this painting is of Austin's niece Marry because she looked similar in her teenage years.
According to the writing, the girl in the painting was Austin because the style of the painting is same as the style of painter Ozias Humphrey, at the time of Austin's teenage years which is supported by the idea that, it was likely that an affluent family like Austin's would hire him for the work. However, the professor rebuts this argument by stating that the blank canvas was sold by the person didn't sell canvas in London when Austin was a teenager. He added that as the painting presents Austin as a teenager, hence it is probably not Austin.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 113, Rule ID: BELIEVE_BELIEF[1]
Message: Did you mean 'beliefs' (noun) instead of believes (verb)?
Suggestion: beliefs
... sale is definitely of Jane Austen. The believes if for several reasons presented in the...
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Line 1, column 171, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...veral reasons presented in the writing. The lecturer disagrees. He says that there ...
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Line 7, column 399, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...the blank canvas was sold by the person didnt sell canvas in London when Austin was a...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, however, if, look, so, therefore, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 22.412803532 152% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 29.0 30.3222958057 96% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1394.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 295.0 270.72406181 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.72542372881 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14434120667 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.34606150737 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 145.348785872 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505084745763 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 432.0 419.366225166 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.9006648405 49.2860985944 126% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.230769231 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6923076923 21.698381199 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.53846153846 7.06452816374 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0802458608038 0.272083759551 29% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0331700402146 0.0996497079465 33% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0386830917097 0.0662205650399 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0548595200785 0.162205337803 34% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0188462476281 0.0443174109184 43% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 10.45 12.2367328918 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.94 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => 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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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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