She wrote two books based on her travels, Eminent Missionary Women and Woman's Medical Work in Mission Fields.

There, Gracey gathered a few local girls together "forming the nucleus of the great work now carried on by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society."

Eventually they added to this compound the Sitapur Girls' School with about 100 pupils and the Annie Ryder Gracey Home for missionaries.

[1] The Graceys subsequently settled in Bareilly, and then in Naini Tal,[2] remaining in India for seven years, before returning to the US in 1868.

As early as 1877, she saw the demand for a larger provision for this department, and the leaflets, booklets and reports that she wrote and produced make an impressive record.

Woman's Medical Work in Mission Fields, and she also published a book on Eminent Missionary Women, besides doing much general writing for various periodicals.