# Mrs. Hughling Elliot — The Voyage Out character guide

> Mrs. Hughling Elliot in The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Mrs. Elliot, Hughling, Hughling Elliot, Elliot

**First appearance:** 0003-iv

## Who they are

A gossipy, social-climbing passenger on the voyage.

## In the story

### [Chapter XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_voyage_out_se/chapters/xii)

Affects a love of dancing over literature to seem youthful; partners Miss Allan in the lancers.

### [XXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_voyage_out_se/chapters/xxvii)

Wins the chess game against Mr. Pepper, wearing a stock as a sign of convalescence.

### [XXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_voyage_out_se/chapters/xxvii)

Wishes for a child and claims she and her husband have no wants.

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