The Dictionnaire des gens du livre au Québec consists of almost four hundred entries, about fifty of which are devoted to women. In this article, the corpus of women is analyzed in order to account for their presence and to reveal the conditions in which they evolved. The analysis focuses on socio-professional characteristics, namely age, place of birth, family milieu, level of schooling, marital status, number of children, secondary occupations and functions that they fulfilled in the world of the book, in addition to some considerations regarding religious communities. The article ends with a reflection on the criteria and the sources that were called upon within the framework of this project, and on new research perspectives on women of the book.