# 1753 in literature

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)