Elizabeth Hughes (b. Edwards) (1815-1893) was born in Wales and died in Oakland, California. In 1841 she married John T. Hughes in Liverpool, England. They immigrated to the United States sometime after 1852 and settled in Oakland. Hughes was an author, and in 1886 she wrote to Mary Baker Eddy enclosing copies of her works: a book entitled The California of the Padres; or Footprints of Ancient Communism (1875) and a pamphlet about the "woman question" which may have been an early version of a work she later published as Hertha: The Spiritual Side of the Woman Question (1889). She also wrote Women's Manifest Destiny and Divine Mission (1884). Hughes's husband was also an author and wrote books on the history of California and the American Southwest. Hughes indicated she had high regard for Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and had been interested in studying Christian Science with Joseph Adams, a student of Eddy, but was unable to afford to do so. She edited and published a periodical entitled The San Francisco Mind Cure and mentioned advertising Science and Health in it.

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