Robert Paltock

Robert Paltock (1697 - 1767) was a novelist and attorney. His most famous work is "The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man" (1751).cite web
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title=The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins
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date=1751
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Paltock was admired by Walter Scott, Coleridge, and Charles Lamb.

"The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins" is somewhat on the same plan as "Robinson Crusoe", the special feature being the "gawry", or flying woman, whom hero discovered on his island, and married. John W. Cousin, author of "A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature" was not impressed by it saying::"The description of Nosmnbdsgrutt, the country of the flying people, is a dull imitation of Swift, and much else in the book is tedious."

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*gutenberg|21513|name=Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.)

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