Robert Paltock
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Robert Paltock (1697 - 1767) was a novelist and attorney. His most famous work is The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins (1751).
The Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature writes of Paltock: "[Paltock was] admired by Scott, Coleridge, and Lamb. [The work] 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. The description of Nosmnbdsgrutt, the country of the flying people, is a dull imitation of Swift, and much else in the book is tedious."
This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.
