Alfred Egmont Hake
Alfred Egmont Hake (1849–1916) was an English author and social thinker.
Early life
He was a son of Thomas Gordon Hake.[1]
The General Gordon story
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]
Later life
Hake edited The State, a Conservative 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). . 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). . 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.)