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

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
Christopher Smart – The Hilliad
Thomas Warton – The Union
George Whitefield – ''Hymns for Social Worship''

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''

March 8 – William Roscoe, English historian and miscellaneous writer
March 13 – József Fabchich, Hungarian translator of Greek and lexicographer
April 8 – Pigault-Lebrun, French novelist and playwright
April 11 – Sophia Burrell, English poet and dramatist
May 8 – Phillis Wheatley, African-American poet
June 26 – Antoine de Rivarol, French Royalist writer
July 8 – Ann Yearsley, née Cromartie, English poet, writer and library proprietor
August 11 – Thomas Bewick, English engraver, writer and natural historian
September 16 – Märta Helena Reenstierna, Swedish diarist
October 15 – Elizabeth Inchbald, English novelist, dramatist and actress
October 16 – Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German Protestant theologian