In the presentation, we will analyze autobiographical sources (letters, diaries, memoirs) of first publicly active women in Slovene Lands. Those first teachers who started to publish in different newspapers and journals were not publicly active only in Slovene media but also broader in Austrian context. In that regard, we will present how women born in in the ’60s and ’70s were different from generation born in the ’80s and ’90s and how they pass through national identities and their engagement in the national movement and multinational environment and Habsburg Imperial style of habitual practice and culture. We will also address the question how those identities changed after the First World War as the process of homogenization and national state building was going on. The Imperial framework collapsed, new ideological mechanisms were started to be promoted as Slovene and Yugoslav identities were reinvented