# Glumdalclitch — Gulliver’s Travels character guide

> Glumdalclitch in Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0013-i

## Snapshot

A giant farmer's daughter, barely nine years old, who tends Gulliver like a beloved doll and calls him her little manikin.

## Who they are

In Brobdingnag, where Gulliver is a plaything passed between handlers, Glumdalclitch is the one pair of enormous hands that treats him with steady tenderness. She teaches him their language, sews him clothes, and carries him in a box against her chest, and her protective affection is the closest thing to safety he finds in a land of giants. Her grief when she loses him sharpens the cruelty of the world around her.

## Relationships

### [Lemuel Gulliver](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gulliver_s_travels_se/characters/lemuel_gulliver)

_friendship_

Glumdalclitch, the giant farmer's daughter, becomes Gulliver's devoted caretaker and companion in Brobdingnag, treating him like a beloved pet.

## In the story

### [Gulliver's Travels](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gulliver_s_travels_se/chapters/gulliver-s-travels)

The young girl who cares for Gulliver in Brobdingnag, treating him with kindness.

### [Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gulliver_s_travels_se/chapters/part-ii-a-voyage-to-brobdingnag)

The farmer's daughter who cares for Gulliver.

### [Chapter I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gulliver_s_travels_se/chapters/i)

Not yet introduced in this chapter.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gulliver_s_travels_se/chapters/ii)

The farmer's nine-year-old daughter, who cares for Gulliver, teaches him the language, and weeps at his being shown for money.

### [Chapter III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gulliver_s_travels_se/chapters/iii)

Gulliver's nurse and instructor; she is admitted into the queen's service at Gulliver's request and continues to care for him.

### [Chapter IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gulliver_s_travels_se/chapters/iv)

Accompanies Gulliver on outings, carries him in her hand or lap, and keeps a statue finger as a trinket.

### [Chapter V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gulliver_s_travels_se/chapters/v)

Gulliver's nurse who carries him in a box, takes him to the gardens, and later confines him after the cow-dung incident.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gulliver_s_travels_se/chapters/vi)

Glumdalclitch provides Gulliver with a needle for making a comb, keeps a spinet in her chamber, and receives a purse made from the queen's hair.

### [Chapter VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gulliver_s_travels_se/chapters/vii)

Mentioned as the one in whose room the queen's joiner constructed a wooden machine for Gulliver to read books.

### [Chapter VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gulliver_s_travels_se/chapters/viii)

Accompanies Gulliver on the royal progress; falls ill and reluctantly allows him to go to the seashore with a page, weeping as if foreseeing his escape.

### [Chapter XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gulliver_s_travels_se/chapters/xi)

Not present in this chapter.

### [Chapter III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/gulliver_s_travels_se/chapters/iii)

Not present in this chapter.

## Links

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