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Overview of the events of 1753 in literature
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
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
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
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 .
OL
30677644M . Retrieved 18 June 2024 .