Looking back at the socio-political circumstances in the 19th century, the paper deals with the work, and partially with the character of Dragojla Jarnević during the time of Croatian literary Romanticism. Considering the period in which she was writing, Dragojla Jarnević's works reflect some of the poetic aspirations of Croatian national revival, especially those related to oral literature and its involvement in authorial texts by taking over topics, motifs or narrative techniques. The influence of the oral literature on the motif and topic levels as well as narration methods is most emphasized in the stories Žertve iz ljubavi i viernosti za domovinu and Oba priatelja, which, with their structure, flat portrayal of characters and happy ending, are mostly associated with fairy tale methods and elements. These elements in the third story of the Povodkinje pod gradom Ozlom are replaced by a legend intertext, and the use of the legend as an oral literary prose genre is analyzed, starting from its building elements and key methods. With the novel Dva pira, Dragojla proves narrative progress and, in addition to independent oral forms - proverbs and oratorical forms, shapes the story between two weddings with descriptions of folk customs with fixed epithets, folk etymology and known elements of disguise, kidnapping and recognition.