Description

Robert Paltock (1697-1767) was a novelist and attorney. His most famous work is The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins (1751). He 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 thw hero discovered on his island, and married. "His Shipwreck near the South Pole; his wonderful Passage thro' a subterraneous Cavern into a kind of new World; his there meeting with a Gawry or flying woman, whose Life he preserv'd, and afterwards married her; his extraordinary Conveyance to the Country of Glums and Gawrys, or Men and Women that fly. Likewise a Description of this strange Country, with the Laws, Customs, and Manners of its Inhabitants, and the Author's remarkable Transactions among them. "