ROBERT PALTOCK BIOGRAPHY
ROBERT PALTOCK BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
PALTOCK, ROBERT (1697-1767). —Novelist, was an attorney, and wrote The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man (1751), admired by Scott, Coleridge, and Lamb. It is somewhat on the same plan as Robinson Crusoe , the special feature being the gawry , or flying woman, whom the 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.