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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

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 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
• 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
• 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

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

1. Oak Island Theories: Reverend Seccombe
2. 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.
3. Poetical Works p. 443