This paper deals with the connection between imaginative literature and social history in the peasant novels Jan Cimbura. Southbohemian idyll [1908] written by Jindřich Šimon Baar and Native fields [1914] written by Bohumil Zahradník - Brodský.
Male hero (Cimbura) represents here social rank of traditional farmerhood, second hero (Prchalová) combines in her personality female emancipation with a growing self - assurance of the farmer strata of population.