Comments on: What Jane Austen Looked Like According to Forensic Science 07/2014/what-jane-austen-looked-like-according-to-forensic-science/ A Lawyer's Thoughts on Authors, Self-Publishing and Traditional Publishing Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:49:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 By: USAF 07/2014/what-jane-austen-looked-like-according-to-forensic-science/#comment-228271 Thu, 17 Jul 2014 06:20:03 +0000 ?p=53889#comment-228271 Good question Tasha, but I’m not sure. I’ve maybe been reading too much Crighton–thinking you can clone from a bone frag. lol

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By: Tasha Turner 07/2014/what-jane-austen-looked-like-according-to-forensic-science/#comment-228234 Thu, 17 Jul 2014 02:28:24 +0000 ?p=53889#comment-228234 Wow you do look very much like she was drawn by her sister. :D

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By: Tasha Turner 07/2014/what-jane-austen-looked-like-according-to-forensic-science/#comment-228232 Thu, 17 Jul 2014 02:24:04 +0000 ?p=53889#comment-228232 That was my thought – they’d dug up her body & used her bones to create structure & then descriptions for color – could they get DNA to determine color & stuff from a 200 year-old corpse?

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By: Sheila 07/2014/what-jane-austen-looked-like-according-to-forensic-science/#comment-227915 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:10:35 +0000 ?p=53889#comment-227915 She does, doesn’t she?

Also, the recreation is totally unlike the description the artist allegedly used.

Claire Chilton (from post further down)looks more like Jane Austen as described by her family.

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By: USAF 07/2014/what-jane-austen-looked-like-according-to-forensic-science/#comment-227868 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 05:27:19 +0000 ?p=53889#comment-227868 thank you Jamie and Matt. i agree that forensics is science. This sounds like interpretative art. Not sure, if peeps want to know what she looked like, they dont exhume the body and do it right. But then, our native american side of the family is fond of saying ‘they dig us up and they are archeological heroes, we dig them up and we are sent to prison.”

the wax version looks quite thin lipped, rather than small mouth, no?, really prominent at the bridge long nosed with bulby end, not quite developed young girl, small breasted Irish redhead. That’s supposed to be an ‘empire waist dress’ and its bodice darts are illfitting completely. And the regimented little winged propellers all over it, are bery bery blah, I think. Not sure I’d call those ‘curls.’ Looks more like lank wavy hair. BUT, the entire wax figure is also sweet, I think. However, since she was a woman of such passion, one would think she would rather go buck nekkid than wear a dress the color of yellow-beige face powder.

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By: Claire Chilton 07/2014/what-jane-austen-looked-like-according-to-forensic-science/#comment-227857 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 03:55:57 +0000 ?p=53889#comment-227857 I totally hate that waxwork. Slender in the early 1800′s did not have bones sticking out of it. And a ‘small of nose and mouth’ does not mean a giant pointy honker.

I compared me (as a round-faced, hazel-eyed, dark-haired English girl) to the 1870 portrait, and came to the conclusion that I look more like Jane Austen that that waxwork does. But then, I’m not a forensic scientist, so maybe I’m wrong. You can see my comparison photo here:

http://www.claire-chilton.com/blog/what-did-jane-austen-really-look-like/

If for nothing else, it’s good for a laugh, and my mother likes it :p.

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By: Pete Morin 07/2014/what-jane-austen-looked-like-according-to-forensic-science/#comment-227850 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 03:25:06 +0000 ?p=53889#comment-227850 Apparently, witnesses described her as flat-chested, too.

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By: Leslie 07/2014/what-jane-austen-looked-like-according-to-forensic-science/#comment-227844 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 02:35:54 +0000 ?p=53889#comment-227844 Maybe I’ve been too influenced by modern plastic surgery, but I wouldn’t call that nose “small and well-formed.” It has no bridge and it’s the same width all the way. (Apologies to Jane Austen for insulting her if this is accurate.)

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By: Libbie Hawker 07/2014/what-jane-austen-looked-like-according-to-forensic-science/#comment-227842 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 02:18:30 +0000 ?p=53889#comment-227842 WHOAH. That’s eerie.

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By: Scott Peterson 07/2014/what-jane-austen-looked-like-according-to-forensic-science/#comment-227835 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 01:14:55 +0000 ?p=53889#comment-227835 Now back up and running.

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