1753 in literature
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The year 1753 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- The earliest existing diary by a woman is written in 1753 by Mercy Seccombe, who had emigrated from Harvard, Massachusetts to Nova Scotia, Canada; her diary ends there.
- The Paper War of 1752-1753 comes to a close.
- Jane Austen's cousin Eliza, goes to India to marry Tysoe Saul Hancock.
[edit] New books
- 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
- William Melmoth the younger - The Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Christopher Pitt et al. - The Works of Virgil in Latin and English
- 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
[edit] Fiction
- Sarah Fielding - The Adventures of David Simple, Volume the Last
- Eliza Haywood - The History of Jemmy and Jenny
- Charlotte Lennox - Shakespear Illustrated (on Shakespeare's sources)
- Samuel Richardson - The History of Sir Charles Grandison
- Tobias Smollett - The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
[edit] 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
[edit] New drama
- Giacomo Casanova - La Moluccheide
- Kitty Clive - The Rehearsal
- Samuel Foote - The Englishman in Paris
- Richard Glover - Boadicea
- Carlo Goldoni - A Servant to Two Masters (Arlecchino servitore di due padroni), comedy, Italian.
- Henry Jones - The Earl of Essex
- Edward Moore - The Gamester
- Edward Young - The Brothers
[edit] Births
- March 8 - William Roscoe, English historian and miscellaneous writer (died 1831)
- June 26 - Antoine de Rivarol, French Royalist writer (died 1801)
- October 16 - Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German Protestant theologian (died 1827)
- date unknown
- Phillis Wheatley (died 1784)
- Elizabeth Inchbald
- Märta Helena Reenstierna (died 1841)
[edit] Deaths
- January 14 - George Berkeley (born 1685)
- May 11 - Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy, theologian (born 1677)
- November - Giuseppe Valentini, Italian violinist, painter, poet, and composer (born 1681)
- date unknown
- Matthew Adams, essayist
- Nicholas Mann, antiquarian writer
