In this paper the author discusses the work of Marija Jurić Zagorka and her efforts to change and improve the position of women in Croatian society. Considering her autobiographical, literary and journalistic work, the paper is attempting to show the ways in which Zagorka continued to critically approach women’s inferior position and oppose it by her own life example and her public work. The complexity of this question is further stimulated by consideration of ways in which women’s position in society was limited by discourse of female education, work and art. The objective is to determine Zagorka’s contribution to legitimization of female freedom by comparative-analytic overview and interdisciplinary comparison which will provide special insight in attempts to create objective female power inside Zagorka’s contemporary novels and articles in magazines Ženski list and Hrvatica. Zagorka’s appearance and work were stepping outside of the frames of her time and her journalistic work was a form of resistance by itself. She actively participated in society and insisted on existence of political dimension of female production and work while embedding feministic and national ideas in writing a romance genre. Her time was marked by conflict between modern and traditional and such conflict can be seen in her work as well whichmakes her modern views open to negotiation with tradition. By writing educational texts about women’s contribution to predominantly male history Zagorka gives her share in legitimization of female action and movement in public sphere. By using outsider position that was imposed on her, Zagorka opposes social structures of her time while trying to be part of them. In doing so, she is characterized by specific writing style and her own boundaries of genre which she molds in accordance with appropriate purposes. Keywords: Marija Jurić Zagorka, women's right, journalism, literary work, autobiography