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... and Robert Paltock (b.1697), https://t.co/H9mAsbwnOI, whose "Peter Wilkins" (1750, title shortened for brevity) was almost as well known in the 19th century as Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" (1719) & Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" (1726), but has now fallen by the literary wayside.
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Youwarkee: The half-bird half-woman heroine of the 1751 novel The Life and Adventure Peter Wilkins a Cornish Man by Robert Paltock, Youwarkee is one of the winged glumms that inhabit an Antarctic island. Peter Wilkins is a shipwrecked sailor who marries her... https://t.co/vby9WBv6Ej