Agnes Rothery (1888–1954), or Agnes Edwards Rothery, was the pen name of American writer Agnes (née Edwards) Pratt. In 1917, Agnes married Harry Rogers Pratt, a music professor at the University of Virginia; in 1940 they built a Spanish Colonial Revival house on Rothery Road in Charlottesville, Virginia.Jane K. Thompson, First Cliff, Scituate, 1630-2013: History of a New England Coastal Neighborhood (Baltimore, MD: Otter Bay Books, 2013), 216-218. The house, Recoleta, is listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register.
Primarily known as a travel writer, she also published novels.
Rothery died in 1954 in Charlottesville, Virginia.“Agnes E. Rothery,” obituary, Boston Globe, August 13, 1954, 13. Her papers are at the University of Virginia.
Selected works A fitting habitation, 1944 Family album, 1942 Miss Coolidge, a comedy in one act, 1927 Into what port?, illustrations by Carl Burger, 1931 Images of earth: Guatemala, 1934 Central American roundabout, illustrated by Kurt Wiese, 1944 Sweden, the land and the people, 1938 South America; the west coast and the east, 1930 Scandinavian roundabout, illustrated by George Gray, 1946 South American roundabout, illustrated by Carl Burger, 1940 Central America and the Spanish Main, 1929 Washington roundabout, illustrated by Carl Burger, 1942 Virginia, the new dominion, by Agnes Rothery, illustrated by E. H. Suydam, 1940 New roads in old Virginia, by Agnes Rothery; with illustrations by Alice Acheson, 1929 The Old Coast Road: From Boston to Plymouth, online, by Agnes Edwards, with illustrations by Louis H. Ruyl, 1920 Cape Cod, 1918 A garden rosary, 1917 The house of friendship, 1915 Houses Virginians have loved. Illustrated with photos, 1954
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