1753 in literature

1753 in literature

The year 1753 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

* The charter of the British Museum was granted
* The Act for the naturalization of Jews in England
* 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.

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"

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"

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"

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"

Births

*March 8 - William Roscoe (died 1831)
*June 26 - Antoine de Rivarol (died 1801)
*date unknown - Phillis Wheatley (died 1784)
* Elizabeth Inchbald

Deaths

*January 14 - George Berkeley (born 1685)


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