Gulliver's Travels Gulliver's Travels Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships (which is the full title), is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. He himself claimed that he wrote "Gulliver's Travels" "to vex the world rather than divert it". The book became popular as soon as it was published. Alexander Pope
Henrietta Maria Gulliver was also active in the Victorian Artists Society. Henrietta Maria Gulliver Henrietta Maria Gulliver (1866–1945) was an Australian painter. She was a founding member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society. Gulliver was born Henrietta Maria Shanklin in 1866. From 1906 through 1911 she studied at the National Gallery School. Gulliver and her husband George Ekins Gulliver were farmers, growing lavender and sassafras on their farm at Cheltenham, Victoria. Fellow artists who visited the farm included Clara Southern, Hilda Rix Nicholas, Elsie Barlow and Alice Marian Ellen Bale. Gulliver was a founding member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and