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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1753.

Events

  • c. January – Mercy Seccombe, having emigrated from Harvard, Massachusetts to Nova Scotia, Canada, begins the earliest recorded diary by a woman in North America.
  • February 1 – Christopher Smart makes his last contribution to the Paper War of 1752–1753, with The Hilliad, which one critic, Lance Bertelsen, describes as the "loudest broadside" of the war.
  • February 2 – Jane Austen's aunt Philadelphia, mother of Eliza de Feuillide, marries Tysoe Saul Hancock in India.
  • March 25 – Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia
  • December – The Paper War of 1752–1753 comes to a close, with the withdrawal of everyone except John Hill

New books

Fiction

  • Sarah Fielding – The Adventures of David Simple, Volume the Last
  • Eliza Haywood – The History of Jemmy and Jenny
  • Samuel Richardson – The History of Sir Charles Grandison
  • Tobias Smollett – The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

Drama

  • Giacomo Casanova – La Moluccheide
  • Kitty Clive – The Rehearsal
  • Samuel Foote – The Englishman in Paris
  • Richard Glover – Boadicea
  • Carlo Goldoni
  • The Mistress of the Inn (La locandiera)
  • Servant of Two Masters (Il servitore di due padroni, revised)
  • Henry Jones – The Earl of Essex
  • Edward Moore – The Gamester
  • Voltaire – L'Orphelin de la Chine
  • Edward Young – The Brothers

Poetry

  • John Armstrong – Taste
  • Thomas Cooke – An Ode on Benevolence
  • Robert Dodsley – Public Virtue
  • Thomas Franklin – Translation
  • Richard Gifford – Contemplation
  • Thomas Gray and Richard Bentley the younger – Designs by Mr. R. Bently for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray
  • Henry Jones – Merit
  • William Kenrick – The Whole Duty of Woman
  • Heyat Mahmud – Hitaggyānbāṇī; Bengali
  • Christopher Smart – The Hilliad
  • Thomas Warton – The Union
  • George Whitefield – Hymns for Social Worship

Non-fiction

  • Theophilus Cibber – The Lives of the Poets
  • Jane Collier – An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting
  • William Hogarth – The Analysis of Beauty
  • David Hume – Essays and Treatises
  • Charlotte Lennox – Shakespear Illustrated, or, The novels and histories on which the plays of Shakespear are founded, vol. 1
  • Christopher Pitt et al. – The Works of Virgil in Latin and English
  • Thomas Richards of Coychurch – Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ thesaurus
  • Henry St. John – A Letter to Sir William Windham
  • John Toland – Hypatia
  • William Warburton – The Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion

Births

  • March 8 – William Roscoe, English historian and miscellaneous writer (died 1831)
  • March 13 – József Fabchich, Hungarian translator of Greek and lexicographer (died 1809)
  • April 8 – Pigault-Lebrun, French novelist and playwright (died 1835)
  • April 11 – Sophia Burrell, English poet and dramatist (died 1802)
  • May 8 – Phillis Wheatley, African-American poet (died 1784)
  • June 26 – Antoine de Rivarol, French Royalist writer (died 1801)
  • July 8 – Ann Yearsley, née Cromartie, English poet, writer and library proprietor (died 1806)
  • August 11 – Thomas Bewick, English engraver, writer and natural historian (died 1828)
  • September 16 – Märta Helena Reenstierna, Swedish diarist (died 1841)
  • October 15 – Elizabeth Inchbald, English novelist, dramatist and actress (died 1821)
  • October 16 – Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German Protestant theologian (died 1827)

Deaths

  • January 14 – Bishop George Berkeley, Irish philosopher (born 1685)
  • May 11 – Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy, French theologian (born 1677)
  • May 23 – Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, Polish dramatist (born 1705)
  • June 13 – Marie Huber, Swiss theologian, editor and translator (born 1695)
  • September 18 – Hristofor Zhefarovich, Macedonian artist and poet (date of birth unknown)
  • November – Giuseppe Valentini, Italian poet, composer and painter (born 1681)
  • November 24 – Nicholas Mann, English antiquarian (date of birth unknown)
  • Unknown dates
  • John Richardson, English Quaker preacher and autobiographer (born 1667)

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