Alfred Egmont Hake

Alfred Egmont Hake (1849–1916) was an English author and social thinker.

Life

A Conservative supporter, Hake lectured on Charles George Gordon and the failure of the Liberal government to rescue him in Khartoum, before the United Kingdom general election, 1885.^[2] Gordon was a first cousin of his father, his paternal grandmother Augusta Maria Hake (née Gordon) being Gordon's aunt.^[3] Hake edited The State, a weekly.

Works

Hake collaborated with David Christie Murray on novels.^[4] He also wrote a biography of Charles George Gordon.

Paris Originals: With Twenty Etchings (1878)^[5]
The Unemployed Problem solved (1884), pamphlet
Remington's Annual (1889), editor^[6]
Events in the Taeping Rebellion (1891)
Regeneration: A Reply to Max Nordau (1896).^[7] Hake linked Max Nordau's ideas in Degeneration with the possibility of imperial decline.^[8] Members of Nordau's family called the book anti-Semitic.^[9] It has also been called a "hatchet job".^[10]
Suffering London - Or, the Hygiene, Moral, Social, and Political Relations of Our Voluntary Hospitals to Society
Gordon in China and the Soudan
The Journals of Major-gen. C.G. Gordon, C.B., at Kartoum (2 vols.), editor
The Coming Individualism, with O. E. Wesslau

He contributed to the Open Review of Arthur Kitson.^[11]

Family

In 1879 Hake married Philippa Mary Handley, daughter of Alexander Charles Handley^[12].

Notes

^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1901). "Hake, Thomas Gordon" . Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ 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.
^ "digital.nls.uk, Bibliography of the Gordons (150) Page 130 Histories of Scottish families - National Library of Scotland". Retrieved 14 July 2016.
^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Murray, David Christie" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ Alfred Egmont Hake (1878). Paris Originals: With Twenty Etchings. C. Kegan Paul & Company.
^ "(none)". Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald. 12 October 1889. p. 3. Retrieved 14 July 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ Alfred Egmont Hake (1896). Regeneration: A Reply to Max Nordau. G. P. Putnam's sons.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1831978
^ 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.)

External links

The Death of General Gordon at Khartoum, 1885, Alfred Egmont Hake in Eva March Tappan (ed.) The World's Story: A History of the World in Story, Song and Art (Boston, 1914) vol. III, pp. 240–249

[1] Lee, Sidney, ed. (1901). "Hake, Thomas Gordon" . Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[2] 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.

[3] "digital.nls.uk, Bibliography of the Gordons (150) Page 130 Histories of Scottish families - National Library of Scotland". Retrieved 14 July 2016.

[4] Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Murray, David Christie" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[5] Alfred Egmont Hake (1878). Paris Originals: With Twenty Etchings. C. Kegan Paul & Company.

[6] "(none)". Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald. 12 October 1889. p. 3. Retrieved 14 July 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[7] Alfred Egmont Hake (1896). Regeneration: A Reply to Max Nordau. G. P. Putnam's sons.

[8] 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.

[9] 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.

[10] 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.

[11] 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: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1831978

[12] 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.)

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