This chapter examines the patterns across a diverse range of individual journalists' experiences, in conjunction with a thematic exploration of related issues: education, marital status, professional and economic patterns. Analysis of late nineteenth-century journalism reveals complex and shifting gender opportunity and career patterns. The chapter also examines a map the positioning of women art writers within the new professional networks of journalists and artists. Articles and books written for women journalists offer a fractured and contradictory version of occupational standards; yet these dissonances evinced and effected changing opportunities for women journalists. The adoption of pseudonyms or initials was a common practice for women writing during the late Victorian period, thus enabling women to conceal their gender. The growing tendency between 1830 and 1914 for periodical critics to be of public school and/or university background was a reflection of the growing respectability of journalism and the growing number of university graduates seeking jobs.