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 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