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.
- February 1 â Christopher Smart makes his last contribution to the Paper War of 1752âÂÂ1753, with The Hilliad, which one critic, Lance Bertelsen, describes as the "loudest broadside" of the war.
- February 2 â Jane Austen's aunt Philadelphia, mother of Eliza de Feuillide, marries Tysoe Saul Hancock in India.
- March 25 â Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia
- December â The Paper War of 1752âÂÂ1753 comes to a close, with the withdrawal of everyone except John Hill
New books
Fiction
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
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 RadziwiÃ
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Âowa, 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)
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