The Sow-and-Acorn Inn, Evershead. Source of photograph: A Group of Noble Dames in the Anniversary Edition of the Wessex Novels, 1920, based in part on previous editions and the photographs of 1912. Frontispiece.
The Sow-and-Acorn was obviously sketched from the present 'Acorn Inn' at Evershot. This is the village to which Tupcombe [in "An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress"] rides to learn the news of Betty, and, upon his arrival, he "took a seat in the chimney-corner of the Sow-and- Acorn."
[These remarks by the anonymous editors often seem to be based on Thomas Hardy's Wessex (1913) by Herman Lea -- PVA].
Hardy, Thomas. "The Wessex Novels II.-- Romances and Fantasies: The Well-Beloved & A Group of Noble Dames. Vol. XIII of The Anniversary Edition. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1912.
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