1753 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1753.
Events
- c. January â Mercy Seccombe, having emigrated from Harvard, Massachusetts to Nova Scotia, Canada, begins the earliest recorded diary by a woman in North America.[1]
- February 1 â Christopher Smart makes his last contribution to the Paper War of 1752â1753, with The Hilliad, which one critic, Lance Bertelsen, describes as the "loudest broadside" of the war.[2]
- February 2 â Jane Austen's aunt Philadelphia, mother of Eliza de Feuillide, marries Tysoe Saul Hancock in India.[3]
- March 25 â Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia
- December â The Paper War of 1752â1753 comes to a close, with the withdrawal of everyone except John Hill[4]
New books
Fiction
- Sarah Fielding â The Adventures of David Simple, Volume the Last
- Eliza Haywood â The History of Jemmy and Jenny
- Samuel Richardson â The History of Sir Charles Grandison
- Tobias Smollett â The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
Drama
- Giacomo Casanova â La Moluccheide
- Kitty Clive â The Rehearsal
- Samuel Foote â The Englishman in Paris
- Richard Glover â Boadicea
- Carlo Goldoni
- The Mistress of the Inn (La locandiera)
- Servant of Two Masters (Il servitore di due padroni, revised)
- Henry Jones â The Earl of Essex
- Edward Moore â The Gamester
- Voltaire â L'Orphelin de la Chine
- Edward Young â The Brothers
Poetry
- John Armstrong â Taste
- Thomas Cooke â An Ode on Benevolence
- Robert Dodsley â Public Virtue
- Thomas Franklin â Translation
- Richard Gifford â Contemplation
- Thomas Gray and Richard Bentley the younger â Designs by Mr. R. Bently for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray
- Henry Jones â Merit
- William Kenrick â The Whole Duty of Woman
- Heyat Mahmud â HitaggyÄnbÄá¹Ä«; Bengali[5]
- Christopher Smart â The Hilliad
- Thomas Warton â The Union
- George Whitefield â Hymns for Social Worship
Non-fiction
- Theophilus Cibber â The Lives of the Poets
- Jane Collier â An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting
- William Hogarth â The Analysis of Beauty
- David Hume â Essays and Treatises
- Charlotte Lennox â Shakespear Illustrated, or, The novels and histories on which the plays of Shakespear are founded, vol. 1
- Christopher Pitt et al. â The Works of Virgil in Latin and English
- Thomas Richards of Coychurch â Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ thesaurus
- Henry St. John â A Letter to Sir William Windham
- John Toland â Hypatia
- William Warburton â The Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion
Births
- March 8 â William Roscoe, English historian and miscellaneous writer (died 1831)
- March 13 â József Fabchich, Hungarian translator of Greek and lexicographer (died 1809)
- April 8 â Pigault-Lebrun, French novelist and playwright (died 1835)
- April 11 â Sophia Burrell, English poet and dramatist (died 1802)
- May 8 â Phillis Wheatley, African-American poet (died 1784)
- June 26 â Antoine de Rivarol, French Royalist writer (died 1801)
- July 8 â Ann Yearsley, née Cromartie, English poet, writer and library proprietor (died 1806)
- August 11 â Thomas Bewick, English engraver, writer and natural historian (died 1828)
- September 16 â Märta Helena Reenstierna, Swedish diarist (died 1841)
- October 15 â Elizabeth Inchbald, English novelist, dramatist and actress (died 1821)
- October 16 â Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German Protestant theologian (died 1827)
Deaths
- January 14 â Bishop George Berkeley, Irish philosopher (born 1685)
- May 11 â Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy, French theologian (born 1677)
- May 23 â Franciszka Urszula RadziwiÅÅowa, Polish dramatist (born 1705)
- June 13 â Marie Huber, Swiss theologian, editor and translator (born 1695)
- September 18 â Hristofor Zhefarovich, Macedonian artist and poet (date of birth unknown)
- November â Giuseppe Valentini, Italian poet, composer and painter (born 1681)
- November 24 â Nicholas Mann, English antiquarian (date of birth unknown)
- Unknown dates
- John Richardson, English Quaker preacher and autobiographer (born 1667)