Robert Paltock

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Robert Paltock (1697–1767) was an English novelist and attorney. His most famous work is The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man (1751).^[1]

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."

References

↑ Paltock, Robert (1751). The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins. Google Books. Retrieved 2007-05-03.

External links

Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) at Project Gutenberg

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Wikisource

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Name	Paltock, Robert
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Short description	British writer
Date of birth	1697
Place of birth
Date of death	1767
Place of death

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