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'''Alfred Egmont Hake''' (1849–1916) was an English author and social thinker. He became associated with the narrative of [[Charles George Gordon]] as a figure of the British Empire, in a fortuitous way.
'''Alfred Egmont Hake''' (1849–1916) was an English author and social thinker. He became associated with the narrative of [[Charles George Gordon]] as a figure of the British Empire, in a fortuitous way.
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*[https://archive.org/details/freetradeincapit00hake ''Free Trade in Capital: Or, Free Competition in the Supply of Capital to Labour, and Its Bearings on the Political and Social Questions of the Day''] (1890), with O. E. Wesslau.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Alfred Egmont Hake|author2=O. E. Wesslau|title=Free Trade in Capital: Or, Free Competition in the Supply of Capital to Labour, and Its Bearings on the Political and Social Questions of the Day|url=https://archive.org/details/freetradeincapit00hakeuoft|year=1890|publisher=Remington & Company}}</ref> For the views of the Free Trade in Capital League, an anti-socialist organisation.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Anthony Howe|title=Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dXn2UXCCTQ4C&pg=PA192|year=1997|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-820146-5|page=192 note 9}}</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/freetradeincapit00hake ''Free Trade in Capital: Or, Free Competition in the Supply of Capital to Labour, and Its Bearings on the Political and Social Questions of the Day''] (1890), with O. E. Wesslau.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Alfred Egmont Hake|author2=O. E. Wesslau|title=Free Trade in Capital: Or, Free Competition in the Supply of Capital to Labour, and Its Bearings on the Political and Social Questions of the Day|url=https://archive.org/details/freetradeincapit00hakeuoft|year=1890|publisher=Remington & Company}}</ref> For the views of the Free Trade in Capital League, an anti-socialist organisation.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Anthony Howe|title=Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dXn2UXCCTQ4C&pg=PA192|year=1997|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-820146-5|page=192 note 9}}</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023126729 ''Events in the Taeping Rebellion''] (1891), editor<ref>{{cite book|author1=Charles George Gordon|author2=Forbes Lugard Story|title=Events in the Taeping Rebellion|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924023126729|year=1891|publisher=W. H. Allen and Company, Limited}}</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023126729 ''Events in the Taeping Rebellion''] (1891), editor<ref>{{cite book|author1=Charles George Gordon|author2=Forbes Lugard Story|title=Events in the Taeping Rebellion|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924023126729|year=1891|publisher=W. H. Allen and Company, Limited}}</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/sufferinglondono00hakerich ''Suffering London - Or, the Hygiene, Moral, Social, and Political Relations of Our Voluntary Hospitals to Society''] (1892)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/sufferinglondono00hakerich|title=Suffering London; or, The hygiene, moral, social, and political relations of our voluntary hospitals to society|last1=Hake|first1=Alfred Egmont|year=1892|work=[[Internet Archive]]|publisher=The Scientific Press, Ltd.|accessdate=14 July 2016|location=London}}</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/sufferinglondono00hakerich ''Suffering London - Or, the Hygiene, Moral, Social, and Political Relations of Our Voluntary Hospitals to Society''] (1892)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/sufferinglondono00hakerich|title=Suffering London; or, The hygiene, moral, social, and political relations of our voluntary hospitals to society|last1=Hake|first1=Alfred Egmont|year=1892|via=[[Internet Archive]]|publisher=The Scientific Press, Ltd.|accessdate=14 July 2016|location=London}}</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924029763012 ''Regeneration: A Reply to Max Nordau''] (1896). This book was published anonymously.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Alfred Egmont Hake|title=Regeneration: A Reply to Max Nordau|url=https://archive.org/details/regenerationare00butlgoog|year=1896|publisher=G. P. Putnam's sons}}</ref> Hake linked [[Max Nordau]]'s ideas in ''[[Degeneration (Nordau)|Degeneration]]'' with the possibility of [[imperial decline]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Andrew Smith|title=Victorian Demons: Medicine, Masculinity, and the Gothic at the Fin-de-siècle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rb6PqWU-YtEC&pg=PA16|date=4 September 2004|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-6357-2|page=16}}</ref> Members of Nordau's family called the book [[anti-Semitic]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Christian Weikop|title=New Perspectives on Brücke Expressionism: Bridging History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mqYnE8H9qYcC&pg=PA208|date=1 January 2011|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-1-4094-1203-8|page=208 note 28}}</ref> It has also been called a "hatchet job".<ref>{{cite book|author=S. Karschay|title=Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tvm3BgAAQBAJ&pg=PT169|date=6 January 2015|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|isbn=978-1-137-45033-3|page=169 note 196}}</ref> On the other hand, Camporesi in the ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'' describes it as "a fundamental and seminal work, proposing not only a cultural and anthropological interpretation of the sociological problems, but even a philosophy of history and a theodicy."
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924029763012 ''Regeneration: A Reply to Max Nordau''] (1896). This book was published anonymously.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Alfred Egmont Hake|title=Regeneration: A Reply to Max Nordau|url=https://archive.org/details/regenerationare00butlgoog|year=1896|publisher=G. P. Putnam's sons}}</ref> Hake linked [[Max Nordau]]'s ideas in ''[[Degeneration (Nordau)|Degeneration]]'' with the possibility of [[imperial decline]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Andrew Smith|title=Victorian Demons: Medicine, Masculinity, and the Gothic at the Fin-de-siècle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rb6PqWU-YtEC&pg=PA16|date=4 September 2004|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-6357-2|page=16}}</ref> Members of Nordau's family called the book [[anti-Semitic]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Christian Weikop|title=New Perspectives on Brücke Expressionism: Bridging History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mqYnE8H9qYcC&pg=PA208|date=1 January 2011|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-1-4094-1203-8|page=208 note 28}}</ref> It has also been called a "hatchet job".<ref>{{cite book|author=S. Karschay|title=Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tvm3BgAAQBAJ&pg=PT169|date=6 January 2015|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|isbn=978-1-137-45033-3|page=169 note 196}}</ref> On the other hand, Camporesi in the ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'' describes it as "a fundamental and seminal work, proposing not only a cultural and anthropological interpretation of the sociological problems, but even a philosophy of history and a theodicy."
*[https://archive.org/details/comingindividua00vanegoog ''The Coming Individualism''] (1895) with O. E. Wesslau<ref>{{cite book|author1=Alfred Egmont Hake|author2=O. E. Wesslau|title=The Coming Individualism|url=https://archive.org/details/comingindividua00vanegoog|year=1895|publisher=A. Constable}}</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/comingindividua00vanegoog ''The Coming Individualism''] (1895) with O. E. Wesslau<ref>{{cite book|author1=Alfred Egmont Hake|author2=O. E. Wesslau|title=The Coming Individualism|url=https://archive.org/details/comingindividua00vanegoog|year=1895|publisher=A. Constable}}</ref>
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Alfred Egmont Hake (1849–1916) was an English author and social thinker. He became associated with the narrative of Charles George Gordon as a figure of the British Empire, in a fortuitous way.

Early life

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Hake was born in Bury St Edmunds, the fourth son of Lucy Bush and Thomas Gordon Hake, a physician. An early friend was William Michael Rossetti, his father being involved professionally with the Rossetti family. He joined the Savile Club in 1878.[1][2]

The General Gordon story

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Charles George Gordon was a first cousin of Hake's father, his paternal grandmother Augusta Maria Hake (née Gordon) being Gordon's aunt.[3] In 1884 Hake published The Story of Chinese Gordon.[4] It concentrated on Gordon's role opposing the Taiping Rebellion. It became topical with the Siege of Khartoum launched that year by Mahdist forces. A companion volume Gordon in China and Soudan was published in 1885, and sold well.[5]

While Gordon remained in the besieged city of Khartoum, journals were taken out through the lines; J. Donald Hamill-Stewart, who left in September 1884, had been keeping a journal, a task taken over by Gordon himself from 10 September. What he wrote to 14 December was brought out, and sent to London.[6] Sir Henry William Gordon, Gordon's brother, was entitled to the papers, after Gordon's death on 26 January 1885; and decided that Hake should edit them. On the other hand, the War Office wanted them suppressed. Gordon himself had thought some very personal comments should not be published; while the content included extended attacks on the current Liberal administration of W. E. Gladstone. Sir Henry was apparently unaware of Hake's political sympathies (he was a strong Conservative supporter).[7]

In the end a popular, two-volume edition of Gordon's journal appeared, with Hake as editor, on 25 June 1885. He added an introduction strongly critical of the government's inactivity in supporting Gordon.[8] Sir Henry Gordon required, contractually, that substantial redaction of the text removed a large number of personal references. Heavy criticism of Evelyn Baring remained.[9] Hake took advice from Wilfrid Meynell, and consulted Wilfred Scawen Blunt the Arabist on background.[10]

Hake then lectured on Gordon and the failure of the Liberal government to rescue him in Khartoum, before the 1885 United Kingdom general election.[11] He undertook a tour in England and Scotland, from the late summer to November: the election campaign started on 24 November.[12] The Conservatives supported the tour covertly through Richard Middleton; and finance was provided by Lord Cranborne and his sister, with whom Hake was in contact in October and December.[13]

Later life

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Hake edited in 1866 The State, a Conservative weekly; it had a short lifespan.[2][14] He became interested in the economics of free trade, was a critic of the Bank Charter Act 1844, and invented a system of banking; which Oscar Wilde found amusing. He wrote works for the Free Trade in Capital League.[2][15]

Hake died on 8 December 1916 of peripheral neuritis, in the City of London Lunatic Asylum, Stone, Kent.[2]

Works

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Hake wrote:

Hake also collaborated with David Christie Murray on novels.[29] He contributed to the Open Review of Arthur Kitson.[30]

Family

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In 1879 Hake married Philippa Mary Handley, daughter of Alexander Charles Handley[2]

References

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  • Fergus Nicoll, "Truest History, Struck Off at White Heat": The Politics of Editing Gordon's Khartoum Journals, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Volume 38, Number 1, March 2010, pp. 21–46(26)

Notes

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  1. ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1901). "Hake, Thomas Gordon" . Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Camporesi, Cristiano. "Hake, Alfred Egmont". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/75599. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ "Bibliography of the Gordons'". National Library of Scotland. p. 130. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
  4. ^ Alfred Egmont Hake; Hugh Craig (1884). The Story of Chinese Gordon. R. Worthington.
  5. ^ Kenneth E. Hendrickson (January 1998). Making Saints: Religion and the Public Image of the British Army, 1809-1885. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 176 note 34. ISBN 978-0-8386-3729-6.
  6. ^ Nicoll, pp. 25–6
  7. ^ Nicoll, p. 26 and pp. 32–3
  8. ^ Nicoll, pp. 32–3
  9. ^ Nicoll, pp. 32–4
  10. ^ Nicoll, p. 36 and p. 41
  11. ^ Berny Sèbe (1 November 2015). Heroic imperialists in Africa: The promotion of British and French colonial heroes, 1870-1939. Manchester University Press. p. 160. ISBN 978-1-5261-0350-5.
  12. ^ Nicoll, p. 42
  13. ^ Nicoll, p. 36 and p. 44 note 94
  14. ^ Nicoll, p. 43 note 77
  15. ^ Oscar Wilde (1962). The letters of Oscar Wilde. R. Hart-Davis. p. 520.
  16. ^ Alfred Egmont Hake (1878). Paris Originals: With Twenty Etchings. C. Kegan Paul & Company.
  17. ^ A. E. Hake; J. G. Lefebre (1884). The New Dance of Death.
  18. ^ Biographical Books. Bowker. 1983. p. 563. ISBN 978-0-8352-1603-6.
  19. ^ "(none)". Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald. 12 October 1889. p. 3. Retrieved 14 July 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  20. ^ Alfred Egmont Hake; O. E. Wesslau (1890). Free Trade in Capital: Or, Free Competition in the Supply of Capital to Labour, and Its Bearings on the Political and Social Questions of the Day. Remington & Company.
  21. ^ Anthony Howe (1997). Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946. Clarendon Press. p. 192 note 9. ISBN 978-0-19-820146-5.
  22. ^ Charles George Gordon; Forbes Lugard Story (1891). Events in the Taeping Rebellion. W. H. Allen and Company, Limited.
  23. ^ Hake, Alfred Egmont (1892). Suffering London; or, The hygiene, moral, social, and political relations of our voluntary hospitals to society. London: The Scientific Press, Ltd. Retrieved 14 July 2016 – via Internet Archive.
  24. ^ Alfred Egmont Hake (1896). Regeneration: A Reply to Max Nordau. G. P. Putnam's sons.
  25. ^ Andrew Smith (4 September 2004). Victorian Demons: Medicine, Masculinity, and the Gothic at the Fin-de-siècle. Manchester University Press. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-7190-6357-2.
  26. ^ Christian Weikop (1 January 2011). New Perspectives on Brücke Expressionism: Bridging History. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 208 note 28. ISBN 978-1-4094-1203-8.
  27. ^ S. Karschay (6 January 2015). Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 169 note 196. ISBN 978-1-137-45033-3.
  28. ^ Alfred Egmont Hake; O. E. Wesslau (1895). The Coming Individualism. A. Constable.
  29. ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Murray, David Christie" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  30. ^ Tyler Cowen and Randall Kroszner, The Development of the New Monetary Economics, Journal of Political Economy Vol. 95, No. 3 (Jun., 1987), pp. 567–590, at p. 581 note 35. Published by: The University of Chicago Press. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1831978
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