Abstract
This project aims at pursuing an investigation about the existence of novels in women's libraries belonging to the Portuguese royal family. In doing so, we take the catalogues of Queen Carlota Joaquina's (1775-1830) and Princess Maria Francisca Benedita's (1746-1829) libraries as a basis to our work. Those documents were written in 1831 at the Biblioteca da Ajuda (Library of Ajuda), and h…