Benigna Machiavelli was serialised in The Forerunner, Volume 5, 1914, and a version was published in pdf format by Bandanna Books in 1994. It is written as the autobiography from early childhood to early adult life of the plain child of an abusive father and an ineffectual mother ('it wasn't so much fathe... that kept mother down... it was mostly her ideas of duty. She thought she had to submit and obey... she was bound by her own notions...) and how she learned to cope and manage those around her.