Miroslav Krleža is one of the most respected Croatian writers who left behind a significant prose and dramatic oeuvre, in which the cycle about the Glembayes stands out in particular. In the second half of the twenties of the 20th century, Krleža began to deal with the fate of the fictional Zagreb bourgeois family Glembay and created a genealogical cycle about that family. The series about the Glembays consists of plays and eleven prose texts, i.e. novellas, fragments and literary portraits. In addition to three well-known plays by Messrs Glembay, In agony and Leda, the prose part of the cycle consists of texts About the Glembeyes, Benefactors, How Dr. Gregor met the wicked for the first time in his life, Funeral in Teresienburg, Love by Marcelo FaberFabriczy for Miss Laura Warroniggova, In the Fog, Ivan Križovec, Baroness Lenbachova, Under the mask, The wedding of the great prefect Klanfar and Klanfar in Varadijevo. The diploma thesis will present the life and work of the author Miroslav Krleža, as well as his literary and dramatic oeuvre with an emphasis on the series about the Glembayes. Furthermore, the paper will analyze the female character throughout the history of Croatian literature and will analyze the female characters of the cycle about the Glembayes.