The couple lived on Mount Scopus, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, and Mere Hall in Birkenhead near Liverpool.

[2][3][4][5] Hill's art was focused on the desert and she also took photographs which were used to illustrate the travel book, With the Beduins (1891), written by her husband.

[6][2][7][8] In 1903 Hill wrote an article A Journey by the Way of the Philistines for The Windsor Magazine, detailing a route she had travelled both alone and with her husband.

[2] In 1914, Arthur Ruppin, head of the Palestine Office of the World Zionist Organization purchased the estate of Sir John Gray Hill for the purpose of building a university.

As Ruppin wrote in his diary: “Today I succeeded in buying from Sir John Gray Hill his large and magnificently situated property on Mount Scopus, thus acquiring the first piece of ground for the Jewish university in Jerusalem.” [10]