The review of construct of female character's identity in DragojlaJarnević's prose is in the centre of this research. The aim of this paper is to be informed about the increased occurrence of female authors in literature, as well as to be familiarised with the basics of the Identity theory through different excerpts from studies of certain theorists. In addition, one section of this paper will be dedicated to the representation of the way female characters were constructed at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The struggle and strengthening of the feeling of national identity of our authors was reviewed at the very beginning of this paper, as well as the affirmation of female authors in the same context. Next, after the review of the construct of female character's identities in Croatian literature of the nineteenth century, in the second chapter we will be informed in more detail aboutDragojlaJarnević's narrative prose due to an easier insight in the novelties she introduces throughout the process of constructing her characters. Something will also be said on the beginnings of female writings, diary as a literary genre, and all that in order to comprehend a unique goal of constructing and bringing closer the female world to readers through two unalike works, through intimate confession and fictional plot. The interpretation of the first systematically written Diary in our literature will be presented in the third chapter. The same chapter will provide the construct of identity of female autobiographical character in the Diary, following Dragojla's spiritual and physical development. In the fourth, and also the last chapter, there will also be a review of the construct of an identity. However, in this context, it will be regarding fictional characters. At the very end of the paper, there will be a conclusion which serves as a comparative analysis which will help in distinguishing the similarities and differences in constructing of female identities through two formally unalike works, and in two different ways.