Throughout the different eras of Croatian literary history, female characters have been modeled in various fashions, with these models often ranging from glorification to demonization. All of these concepts of female characters naturally contained some similarities, as well as certain differences. In this manner, the basic notions of women were formed: the martyr, the heroine, the sinner, the penitent, the saint, the warrior and the witch. Seeing how most female characters were created by men, especially in the earlier periods of Croatian literature, it was not uncommon for these authors to title their works with female names, ie. to use the work’s very title in order to imply the importance of the female character in question. Frequently, female characters in particular were instrumentalized for pragmatic purposes, to emphasize certain political ideas or moral teachings which were of importance to the community, whereby female prosopography almost invariably carried the key semantic potential. For this reason the corpus of literary works chosen for analysis contained seven texts of different genres spanning from the Medieval age to the end of the 19th century, all of which contain female names in their titles: the presentation Muka svete Margarite, Judita by Marko Marulić, Dubravka by Ivan Gundulić, Sveta Rožalija by Antun Kanižlić, Teuta by Dimitrije Demeter, Branka by August Šenoa and Tena by Josip Kozarac. Whilst analyzing the specific titular heroines, it was important to differentiate the conventions of the genre in regard to forming a particular character, the poetics of the given literary period and the author himself, as well as the social context in which the characters exist. Finally, certain elements in the concepts of the female character were extracted which have been carried on throughout all the literary periods from the Medieval ages to the 19th century, as well as common motives detected in all the texts which concern established gender roles (such as the firmly emphasized motive of beauty, the agreement to marriage and servitude). Considering the existence of strongly rooted misogynous stereotypes of women dating back to the Antics, which have been carried on in literature to the 19th century, this study concludes that it is a matter of Apology of women, with certain deviations. This is most apparent in the virtues (or an understanding of the flaws), as well as the influence and importance assigned to the heroines.