John Camden Hotten (1832, Clerkenwell-1873) was an English bibliophile and publisher.
Hotten was born in Clerkenwell, London to a family of Cornish origins. In 1855 he opened a small bookshop in London, and founded the publishing firm later known as Chatto & Windus. He was a compiler of an English language dictionary of slang: first published in 1859 under the title A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words,[1] the book was reprinted numerous times. He was also a collector, author and clandestine publisher of pornography and a friend of the poet Swinburne.
Notes
- ^ Hotten, John Camden at GetCited
- John Sutherland, "The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction", Stanford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0804718423, p.307.
External links
- Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal By John Camden Hotten. 1874 ed. at Google books
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