Her books include Dixie After the War (1906), The Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens (1910) and Uncle Remus and the Wren's Nest (1913).

In this outright racist book, she complains that the effect of the abolition of slavery had been that "the negro, en masse, relapsed promptly into the voodooism of Africa.

"[4] She glorified lynchings and the terror of the Ku Klux Klan and – along with other authors like Thomas Dixon Jr. – "deformed the reality of the white counterrevolution during Reconstruction".

Stephens had been the Vice President of the Confederate States of America and, while in Union custody, he kept a journal, which Avary would later publish.

Myrta Lockett Avary's final work was Uncle Remus and the Wren's Nest, of Joel Chandler Harris and his Home in 1913.