Myrta Lockett Avary

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Myrta Lockett Avary

1857–1946

A journalist and author from the post-Civil War South, she wrote memoirs, biographies, and regional histories that helped shape how later generations pictured the Confederacy. Her books range from personal wartime recollections to studies of figures such as Alexander H. Stephens and Joel Chandler Harris.

2 Audiobooks

Dixie After the War An Exposition of Social Conditions Existing in the South, During the Twelve Years Succeeding the Fall of Richmond

Dixie After the War An Exposition of Social Conditions Existing in the South, During the Twelve Years Succeeding the Fall of Richmond

by Myrta Lockett Avary

A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865 being a record of the actual experiences of the wife of a Confederate officer

A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865 being a record of the actual experiences of the wife of a Confederate officer

by Myrta Lockett Avary

About the author

Born in Halifax County, Virginia, on December 7, 1857, she later married Atlanta physician James Corbin Avary and built a career as a writer and journalist in Georgia. She contributed to newspapers including the Atlanta Journal, the Atlanta Constitution, and the Atlanta Georgian.

Her best-known books include A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861–1865, Dixie After the War, The Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens, and Uncle Remus and the Wren's Nest. These works drew on interviews, memoir, and regional history, and they preserved many stories and viewpoints from former Confederates and their families.

Today, her writing is also read as part of the history of Lost Cause memory and white supremacist storytelling in the United States. She died in Atlanta on February 14, 1946.