NottmPostEG published ​EG Art: PH Emerson: Presented By The Author at Nottingham Castle

In a lifetime spanning the middle of the 19th century to the 1930s Peter Henry Emerson had many interests and pleasures including photography, boat-building, love of nature, amateur anthropology and writing detective novels. In character Emerson was perhaps naturally argumentative since he so steadfastly took contrary aesthetic views in his best known role as a pioneering photographer of rural life in Britain. That he was also easily irritated is borne out by a letter sent to Nottingham...