The study Hrvatske knjiţevnice 19. stoljeća i njihova recepcija u hrvatskoj knjiţevnoj historiografiji / Croatian female authors in the 19th century and their reception in Croatian literary historiography brings a survey of women writers active in Croatian literature during the literary-stylistic periods of Romanticism and Realism and who were writing in Croatian language. As opposed to previous periods, a higher number of women taking part in the literary production of that time is noticeable. Therefore, based on the nineteenth-century periodical articles, this study attempts to determine social circumstances providing the framework for the literary activity of women, their social and cultural position as well as their motives and incentives for literary work. Separate chapters are dedicated to Ana Vidović, Dragojla Jarnević, Ana Vrdoljak, Jagoda Brlić, Milka Pogaĉić and Ivka Kralj, and analyses of their opuses have indicated that their literary-historical significance is larger than the one defined by sex, which has been previously noticed as the underlying discourse of their representation in Croatian literary historiography. Thus we can talk about the introduction of new motifs and themes and their original elaboration within the scope of the then Croatian literature and in the work of basically each and every female writer, about Ana Vidović as the authoress of the first romantic epic poem or Dragojla Jarnević as the authoress of one of the first novels in modern, 19th century Croatian literature, about the fact that they were the first to succeed in the intention to win over the reading audience, completing by this one of the most important tasks of their time. They were the first to introduce new topics in epic forms (Vidović and Jarnević), turning also to then contemporary themes and first attempts at character psychologization (Jarnević), thematizing the woman question within the context of socially ingrained gender roles (Jarnević, Brlić, Pogaĉić, Kralj), at the same time recognizing children as important reading public and turning to children's literature (Jarnević, Pogaĉić). In the book, a special emphasis is directed at the analysis of the reception of the mentioned women writers in Croatian literary historiography, showing the lack of a systematized corpus of female writers, the absence of most of them from literary-historical syntheses, discrepancies in interpretations, but also many factual and interpretative inaccuracies which this study attempted to correct.