Mrs. Hughes is a character in Northanger Abbey. She is a companion of Eleanor Tilney's. She knew the late Mrs. Tilney, as they were schoolfellows together. She regaled quite a bit of the Tilney family history to Mrs. Allen while in the pump-room. Catherine Morland could not attend as she had been press-ganged into going for a drive with the crude and vain John Thorpe, brother of Isabella Thorpe.