Zagorka – kroničar starog Zagreba

She was the first professional journalist and the most widely read Croatian writer. For a time, she edited Obzor. She founded and edited Ženski list, the first Croatian magazine for women, and Hrvatica. She fought against social discrimination, Magyarization and Germanization, and for women's rights. She was supported in her literary and journalistic work by Josip Juraj Strossmayer, who encouraged her to write novels. She wrote novels intended for a wider audience, intertwining love stories with elements of national history. Some of her prose works have been dramatized and made into films.