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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.^[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]
February 2 – Jane Austen's aunt Philadelphia, mother of Eliza de Feuillide, marries Tysoe Saul Hancock in India.^[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 Hill ^[4]

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 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; Bengali ^[5]
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 dates
- Matthew Adams, American essayist (year of birth unknown)^[6]
- John Richardson, English Quaker preacher and autobiographer (born 1667)

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In 1752, Henry Fielding started a "paper war", a long-term dispute with constant publication of pamphlets attacking other writers, between the various authors on London's Grub Street. Although it began as a dispute between Fielding and John Hill, other authors, such as Christopher Smart, Bonnell Thornton, William Kenrick, Arthur Murphy and Tobias Smollett, were soon dedicating their works to aid various sides of the conflict.

The Hilliad was Christopher Smart's mock epic poem written as a literary attack upon John Hill on 1 February 1753. The title is a play on Alexander Pope's The Dunciad with a substitution of Hill's name, which represents Smart's debt to Pope for the form and style of The Hilliad as well as a punning reference to the Iliad. In "Book the First" of The Hilliad, Hillario is seduced by a Sibyl to give up his career as an apothecary and instead becomes a writer. However, his fortune quickly descends with Hillario ultimately turning into the "arch-dunce".

References

↑ Oak Island Theories: Reverend Seccombe
↑ 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. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 3–. ISBN 978-0-313-30017-2.
↑ Poetical Works p. 443.
↑ Wakil Ahmed (2012). "Heyat Mamud". In Islam, Sirajul; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562 . Retrieved 21 May 2022.
↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. New England Historic Genealogical Society. 1856. p. 89.

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[1] Oak Island Theories: Reverend Seccombe

[2] 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.

[3] Paul Poplawski (1998). A Jane Austen Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 3–. ISBN 978-0-313-30017-2.

[4] Poetical Works p. 443.

[bpedia-5] Wakil Ahmed (2012). "Heyat Mamud". In Islam, Sirajul; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562 . Retrieved 21 May 2022.

[6] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. New England Historic Genealogical Society. 1856. p. 89.

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