1753 in literature

none 1753 literature poetry July 2020 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.http://www.oakislandtheories.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55:reverend-seccombe&catid=35:property-owners-of-oak-island&Itemid=58 Oak Island Theories: Reverend Seccombe 2013-01-30 2025-01-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20250123172244/http://www.oakislandtheories.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55:reverend-seccombe&catid=35:property-owners-of-oak-island&Itemid=58 dead 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.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. 9780312213695. February 2 – Jane Austen's aunt Philadelphia, mother of Eliza de Feuillide, marries Tysoe Saul Hancock in India.Paul Poplawski A Jane Austen Encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=hW-OXDSc3rAC&pg=PA3 1998 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-30017-2 3– 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 HillPoetical Works p. 443. New books Fiction Sarah Fielding – The Adventures of David Simple, Volume the Last Eliza Haywood – The History of Jemmy and Jenny Abbé Prévost – Manon Lescaut (Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux, et de Manon Lescaut, 2nd edn, 1st authorised as separate publication) 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 1753 in 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; BengaliHeyat Mamud Wakil Ahmed 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 date – John Richardson, English Quaker preacher and autobiographer (born 1667) References 30em