​In “Personal Memories of an Intimate Life in Morocco”, Ferrara presents important historical information absent from parallel sources. The book is of particular value to those interested in the historical period under study, as its writer was the wife of the deputy director Dar Al-Makina, an arms factory in Fez. This paper applies an inductive approach to the text and compares it with other historical sources of the period, in an attempt to draw new conclusions that may be of use to historical researchers and answer certain questions about the Morocco’s modernisation process.