This is the 2nd time I have read Persuasion, so I do understand most of the charachters better, but not Mrs. Clay.

Did I miss it somewhere in the book that says where she cmae from and how she came to be with Sir Walter and Elizabeth? To me, she seems more as a governess who never went away from the family, and now they can't seem to part with her because she has always just been there, like a lamp.