John Stephen Farmer

Born| 7 March 1854
Died| 18 January 1916 (1916-01-19) (aged 61)
Occupation| Lexicographer, spiritualist

John Stephen Farmer (7 March 1854 – 18 January 1916) also known as J. S. Farmer was a British lexicographer, spiritualist and writer. He was most well known for his seven volume dictionary of slang.

## Contents

* 1 Career
* 2 Publications
* 3 References
* 4 Further reading
* 5 External links

## Career

Farmer was born in Bedford. His lifetime work was Slang and its Analogues published in seven volumes (1890–1904) with William Ernest Henley.[1][2]

Farmer took interest in psychical research and spiritualism. He was the first editor for the spiritualist journal Light.[3] From 1878, he also edited the Psychological Review, a spiritualist periodical.[4] Farmer was a member of the London Spiritualist Alliance.[5]

Farmer defended the medium William Eglinton from accusations of fraud and in 1886 wrote a biography about Eglinton.[6]

## Publications

* Spiritualism as a New Basis of Belief (1880)
* A New Basis of Belief in Immortality (1882)
* How to Investigate Spiritualism (1883)
* Twixt Two Worlds: A Narrative of the Life and Work of William Eglinton (1886)
* Americanisms, Old and New. A Dictionary of Words, Phrases, and Colloquialisms peculiar to the United States, British America, the West Indies, &c., &c., Their Derivation, Meaning, and Application, together with numerous Anecdotal, Historical, Explanatory, and Folk-lore Notes (1889)
* Slang and its Analogues Past and Present: 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 (Seven volumes, 1890–1904) [with William Ernest Henley]

## References

1. ↑ Coleman, Julie. (2008). A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries: Volume III: 1859–1936. Oxford University Press. pp. 53-54. ISBN 978-0199549375
2. ↑ Hughes, Geoffrey. (2006). An Encyclopedia of Swearing: The Social History of Oaths, Profanity, Foul Language, and Ethnic Slurs in the English-speaking World. Routledge. pp. 158-159. ISBN 978-0765612311
3. ↑ Oppenheim, Janet. (1988). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0521347679
4. ↑ Lavoie, Jeffrey D. (2014). Search for Meaning in Victorian Religion: The Spiritual Journey and Esoteric Teachings of Charles Carleton Massey. Lehigh University Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-1611461848
5. ↑ Oppenheim, Janet. (1988). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 57. ISBN 978-0521347679
6. ↑ Christine Ferguson. (2012). Determined Spirits: Eugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing, 1848–1930. Edinburgh University Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0748639656

## Further reading

* Eric Dingwall. (1981). Light and the Farmer Mystery. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 51: 22-25.

## External links

* Works by John Stephen Farmer at Project Gutenberg

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Spiritualism and spiritism

History and beliefs|

* Apport
* Automatic writing
* Cross-Correspondences
* Ectoplasm
* Faith healing
* Materialization
* Mediumship
* Séance
* Spirit guides
* Spiritual healing
* Spirit obsession
* Spirit photography
* Spirit possession
* Spirit world
* Table-turning
* Theism

Spiritualists|

* Derek Acorah
* Rosemary Altea
* Dan Aykroyd
* Charles Bailey
* Bangs Sisters
* Ada Besinnet
* Stephen E. Braude
* William Breeze
* Rosemary Brown
* Sylvia Browne
* Eva Carrière
* Doris Collins
* Florence Cook
* Mina Crandon
* William Crookes
* Geraldine Cummins
* Pearl Curran
* Frank Decker
* Arthur Conan Doyle
* Helen Duncan
* Eddy Brothers
* Harry Edwards
* John Edward
* William Eglinton
* Colin Evans
* Fox sisters
* Leslie Flint
* Arthur Ford
* Colin Fry
* Eileen Garrett
* Kathleen Goligher
* Rita Goold
* Jan Guzyk
* Robert Hare
* Alec Harris
* Gordon Higginson
* Richard Hodgson
* Daniel Dunglas Home
* Elizabeth Hope
* William Hope
* Swami Laura Horos
* Cecil Husk
* James H. Hyslop
* Allan Kardec
* Franek Kluski
* Gladys Osborne Leonard
* Oliver Lodge
* Heinrich Melzer
* Carmine Mirabelli
* Francis Ward Monck
* William Usborne Moore
* Lorin Morgan-Richards
* William Stainton Moses
* Einer Nielsen
* Eusapia Palladino
* Leonora Piper
* Ethel Post-Parrish
* James Van Praagh
* Bert Reese
* Estelle Roberts
* Jane Roberts
* William Roy
* Rudi Schneider
* Maria Silbert
* Henry Slade
* Doris Stokes
* Emanuel Swedenborg
* Rosina Thompson
* Stanisława Tomczyk
* Ena Twigg
* George Valiantine
* Jack Webber
* Etta Wriedt
* Chico Xavier

Organizations|

* List of Spiritualist organizations
* Spiritualist churches
* Spiritist centres
* London Spiritualist Alliance
* National Spiritualist Association of Churches
* Spiritualists' National Union
* Spiritualist Association of Great Britain
* Spiritual church movement
* Arthur Findlay College
* International Spiritualist Federation

Skeptics|

* David Abbott
* John Henry Anderson
* George Miller Beard
* Ruth Brandon
* Lionel Branson
* Derren Brown
* William Carpenter
* Milbourne Christopher
* Edward Clodd
* Edmund Smith Conklin
* Millais Culpin
* Stuart Cumberland
* Eric Dingwall
* Joseph Dunninger
* Henry Evans
* Chris French
* Martin Gardner
* G. Stanley Hall
* Trevor H. Hall
* William A. Hammond
* C. E. M. Hansel
* Carlos María de Heredia
* Carl Hertz
* Terence Hines
* Harry Houdini
* Joseph Jastrow
* Stanley LeFevre Krebs
* Rose Mackenberg
* David Marks
* John Nevil Maskelyne
* Henry Maudsley
* Joseph McCabe
* Henry C. McComas
* Georgess McHargue
* Charles Arthur Mercier
* Albert Moll
* John Mulholland
* Fulton Oursler
* Joe Nickell
* E. Clephan Palmer
* Ronald Pearsall
* Frank Podmore
* Massimo Polidoro
* Harry Price
* Julien Proskauer
* James Randi
* Donovan Rawcliffe
* Joseph Rinn
* C. E. Bechhofer Roberts
* Chung Ling Soo
* Gordon Stein
* Amy Tanner
* Ivor Lloyd Tuckett
* Lyttelton Winslow
* Richard Wiseman

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