1753 in literature
Overview of the events of 1753 in literature
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 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 date – John Richardson , English Quaker preacher and autobiographer (born 1667 )References
↑ "Oak Island Theories: Reverend Seccombe" . Archived from the original on 2025-01-23. Retrieved 2013-01-30 .↑ Lance Bertelsen, "'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, p. 144. New York, NY: St. Martin's, 1999. ISBN 9780312213695 ↑ Paul Poplawski (1998). A Jane Austen Encyclopedia 3–. ISBN 978-0-313-30017-2 ↑ Poetical Works p. 443.↑ Wakil Ahmed (2012). "Heyat Mamud" . In Sirajul Islam ; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza ; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh . ISBN 984-32-0576-6 OCLC 52727562 . OL 30677644M . Retrieved 12 November 2026 .