“…The collection of books by women is the keynote of this article. For this, reflections were made in the light of authors, such as: Quentin-Bauchart (1886), Roberts (1895), Cim (1901), Darnton (1992), Courceles and Júlian (1999), Azevedo (2010), Palma Peña (2013), Bessone (2014), Hastings (2014) and Melo (2018). From a methodological point of view, the study of two cases was carried out: the Paraense bibliophile Annunciada Chaves and the Gaúcha bibliographer Salete Maccalóz, whose trajectories will be analyzed according to the following aspects: from birth and death, training, social insertion and interest in books until the destination of their libraries, characteristics of their libraries, illustrating the bibliographic characteristics.…”