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John Stephen Farmer

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John Stephen Farmer

1854–1916

A pioneering Victorian lexicographer, John Stephen Farmer devoted years to recording the vivid slang and informal language of English-speaking society. His work also led him into spiritualism, psychical research, and the editing of influential spiritualist journals.

6 Audiobooks

Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]

Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]

by John Stephen Farmer

The Public School Word-book A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities

The Public School Word-book A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities

by John Stephen Farmer

Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 1 [of 7] : A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.

Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 1 [of 7] : A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.

by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley

Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 2 [of 7] : A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.

Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 2 [of 7] : A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.

by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley

Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 3 [of 7] : A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.

Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 3 [of 7] : A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.

by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley

Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 4 [of 7] : A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.

Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 4 [of 7] : A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.

by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley

About the author

Born in Bedford on 7 March 1854, John Stephen Farmer was a British lexicographer, writer, and spiritualist. He is best known for Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present, a seven-volume dictionary produced with William Ernest Henley and published between 1890 and 1904.

Farmer also played an active role in the spiritualist movement. He became the first editor of the journal Light, edited the Psychological Review from 1878, and was a member of the London Spiritualist Alliance. His publications included Spiritualism as a New Basis of Belief, How to Investigate Spiritualism, and a biography of the medium William Eglinton.

He died on 18 January 1916, aged 61, leaving behind an important record of slang, colloquial language, and Victorian spiritualist thought.