In the years before the outbreak of the First World War, the “Balkans” were perceived as a crisis area par excellence in the European media and publics, a narrative that was adopted by Mary Edith Durham, who in the 1900s and 1910s observed the recently explored Balkan countries/nations. This chapter scrutinizes her work: Mary Edith Durham was one of the first women to report as a war correspondent directly from the front during the Balkan Wars and the First World War. She was considered a daring traveler, who ventured into unknown and dangerous areas in the Balkans. She was referred to as “Albania’s Mountain Queen” advocating for an oppressed population in the Balkans that did not belong to the Christian cultural sphere. Therefore, she re-interpreted the negative strands and aspects within historical narratives about Serbia, targeting Serbian politicians and the network of the Serbian government’s underground organizations. Mary Edith Durham’s advocacy for Albanian selfdetermination made her unpopular among her academic contemporaries, especially as Yugoslavia took form in 1918, while the British historian Robert Seton-Watson supported a united South Slavic state. Durham’s portrayal of Serbia’s role in the Sarajevo assassination, as part of a broader political intrigue, competed with Seton-Watson’s narrative of Serbian victimhood and oppression. These contrasting historical narratives influenced Western perceptions of the Balkans and shaped the interwar public discourse on the origins of World War I.