Alice Dew-Smith

Alice Mary Lloyd Dew-Smith (1859 – 1949) was a New Zealand-born writer, suffragist, feminist, and spiritualist.

Alice Mary Lloyd was born on 1859 in Auckland, New Zealand, daughter of the Rev. John Frederick Lloyd, archdeacon of Waitemata. She and her family moved to England in the 1870s. She attended Newnham College, Cambridge and while there began a lifelong friendship with Jane Ellen Harrison. She taught at Wimbledon High School and worked as a journalist. She was one of a number of writers for the women-only column called "Wares of Autolycus" that was published in the Pall Mall Gazette.

Her first book, Soul Shapes (1890), developed from a party game. Dew-Smith believed she could "visualize souls" and classified them into four color categories, with the blue soul being superior. Her collection A White Umbrella and Other Stories (1895), published under the name Sarnia, included "A Ballet in the Skies", where the narrator takes a trip to the Moon using flowers. Confidences of an Amateur Gardener. London: Seely and Co., 1897. Tom Tug and Others: Sketches in a Domestic Menagerie. London: Seely and Co., 1898.