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Overview of the events of 1753 in literature
Overview of the events of 1753 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1753 .
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 [ edit ] Fiction [ edit ] Non-fiction [ edit ] 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 )References [ edit ]
^ 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 ISBN 978-0-313-30017-2 ^ Poetical Works p. 443.^ Wakil Ahmed (2012). "Heyat Mamud" . In Sirajul Islam ; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza ; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh Asiatic Society of Bangladesh . ISBN 984-32-0576-6 OCLC 52727562 . OL 30677644M . Retrieved 5 April 2024 .
