Gertrude Hill Lewes

Gertrude Hill Lewes was a British writer of the late 19th century. She is known for Dr. Southwood Smith: A Retrospect (1898), a memoir of the physician and reformer Thomas Southwood Smith.

She belonged to an unusually notable family. Sources identify her as a granddaughter of Southwood Smith, and she was also the sister of the social reformer Octavia Hill. That family background helps explain the strong interest in public life and reform reflected in her writing.

Although not a widely famous literary figure in her own right, her surviving work preserves the memory of an important Victorian reformer and offers a glimpse into the intellectual world around the Hill and Lewes families.