1753 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1753.
Events
- January(?) - Mercy Seccombe, who had emigrated from Harvard, Massachusetts, to Nova Scotia, Canada, begins her diary, the earliest recorded such work by a woman in North America.[1]
- 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.[2]
- December - The Paper War of 1752–1753 comes to a close, with the non-participation of everyone except John Hill[3]
- Jane Austen's aunt Eliza (mother of Eliza de Feuillide) goes to India to marry Tysoe Saul Hancock.
New books
- 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
Poetry
- John Armstrong - Taste
- Thomas Gray and Richard Bentley the younger - Designs by Mr. R. Bently for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray
- Thomas Cooke - An Ode on Benevolence
- Robert Dodsley - Public Virtue
- Thomas Franklin - Translation
- Richard Gifford - Contemplation
- Henry Jones - Merit
- William Kenrick - The Whole Duty of Woman
- John Ogilvie - The Day of Judgment
- Christopher Smart - The Hilliad
- Thomas Warton - The Union
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
- William Melmoth the younger - The Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Agustín Montiano y Luyando - Discurso segundo sobre las tragedias españolas
- 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
- George Whitefield - Hymns for Social Worship
New 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
- Edward Young - The Brothers
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)
- 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
- Matthew Adams, American essayist (year of birth unknown)
- John Richardson, English Quaker preacher and autobiographer (born 1667)
References
- ↑ Oak Island Theories: Reverend Seccombe
- ↑ Bertelsen, Lance. "'Neutral Nonsense, neither False nor True': Christopher Smart and the Paper War(s) of 1752-53." In Christopher Smart and the Enlightenment, edited by Clement Hawes, p144. New York, NY: St. Martin's, 1999. ISBN 9780312213695.
- ↑ Poetical Works p. 443
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