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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1753.

Events

January(?) - Mercy Seccombe, who had emigrated from Harvard, Massachusetts, to Nova Scotia, Canada, begins her diary, the earliest recorded such work 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]
December - The Paper War of 1752–1753 comes to a close, with the non-participation of everyone except John Hill^[3]
Jane Austen's aunt Eliza (mother of Eliza de Feuillide) goes to India to marry Tysoe Saul Hancock.

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

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
William Melmoth the younger - The Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero
Agustín Montiano y Luyando - Discurso segundo sobre las tragedias españolas
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
George Whitefield - Hymns for Social Worship

Giacomo Casanova - La Moluccheide
Kitty Clive - The Rehearsal
Samuel Foote - The Englishman in Paris
Richard Glover - Boadicea
Carlo Goldoni
- The Mistress of the Inn (La locandiera)
- Servant of Two Masters (Il servitore di due padroni, revised)
Henry Jones - The Earl of Essex
Edward Moore - The Gamester
Edward Young - The Brothers

March 8 – William Roscoe, English historian and miscellaneous writer (died 1831)
April 8 – Pigault-Lebrun, French novelist and playwright (died 1835)
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)

January 14 – Bishop George Berkeley, Irish philosopher (born 1685)
May 11 – Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy, French theologian (born 1677)
May 23 – Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, Polish dramatist (born 1705)
June 13 – Marie Huber, Swiss theologian, editor and translator (born 1695)
September 18 – Hristofor Zhefarovich, Macedonian artist and poet (date of birth unknown)
November – Giuseppe Valentini, Italian poet, composer and painter (born 1681)
November 24 – Nicholas Mann, English antiquarian (date of birth unknown)
Unknown dates
- Matthew Adams, American essayist (year of birth unknown)
- John Richardson, English Quaker preacher and autobiographer (born 1667)

↑ Oak Island Theories: Reverend Seccombe
↑ Bertelsen, Lance. "'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, p144. New York, NY: St. Martin's, 1999. ISBN 9780312213695.
↑ Poetical Works p. 443