The Old Coast Road: From Boston to Plymouth

Agnes Edwards Rothery Platt (1887-1954) was an American author of travel books, several of which were about her adopted home of Virginia. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, she graduated from Wellesley College in 1909 and joined the staff of Ladies Home Journal as an Assistant Editor. Later she served as Literary Editor of the Boston Herald, and she was a contributor to Reader's Digest, House Beautiful and the Virginia Quarterly Review. In 1917 she married University of Virginia music professor Harry Rogers Pratt (1886-1956). Her works include: The Old Coast Road: From Boston to Plymouth (1920), The House by the Windmill (1923), The High Altar (1924), New Roads in Old Virginia (1937), A Fitting Habitation (1944) and Houses Virginians Have Loved (1954).