in turn renting a property that is a bit too fancy for their current situation. Aware of Sir Walter’s susceptible nature, his friend Mrs. Clay is trying to persuade him to marry her.

Because of the complications of English inheritance law, Anne’s unmarried status could present an obstacle to the plans of a cousin, William Elliott, to inherit family property. This motivation is behind his courtship of Anne, who suspects his motives. William seems like to succeed, however, in persuading her father of his sterling character.

Anne finally learns that Captain Wentworth has been persuaded of her lack of interest in him, while in truth she still loves him. Once the interfering friends and relatives are set aside, they can be married in a union of equals.

Not sure what you mean by marks, but here is my answer and I hope it helps:

The novel Persuasion, and the importance and significance of its title is precisely because the story's main character, Anne, accepted the advice of a Lady Russell, a lady who convinced her through "good will advice" that Anne should leave her Naval Officer lover, Captain Wentworth, because Anne deserved a much more priviledged kind of relationship with a much richer man.  Lady Russell did not mean wrong. She is a Lady who wants the best for both Anne and Anne's mother, hence, she was suggesting this from the goodness of her heart.

However, after Anne left Wentworth, she was unable to stop loving him, yet, as a member of the upper classes, she stubbornly stuck to her choice and said:

 "a strong sense of duty is no bad part of a woman's portion."

In the end, we are left with the question on whether Anne is a heroine in her own life story, or if she is just a snob with a penchant for mental masochism.

In the exact same way that Austen's other titles indicate her novels' central themes, the title Persuasion indicates that Austen's central theme deals with Austen's perspective on a person's ability to be persuaded. In the same way that Austen analyzes the follies and virtues of both pride and prejudice in Pride and Prejudice and the folly of emotionalism, or sensibility, in comparison with the virtue of rational thought, or sense, in Sense and Sensbility, Austen also analyzes both the virtues and vices of either being easily persuaded or being unable to be persuaded.

Austen points out that being easily persuaded is a vice: Anne's heart was broken when she gave in to Lady Russell's advice to not accept Wentworth's proposal because he currently had no fortune.

Austen also points out that refusing to be persuaded is a vice:
1) Louisa nearly died as a consequence of her refusal to be persuaded by Wentworth when he insisted that jumping down the stairs at Lyme was to dangerous.

2) Even though Anne is very intelligent and has a reasonable mind, her family refuses to listen to her advise and be persuaded by her on matters of finance.

3) When Anne meets Captain Benwick she advises him that reading only poetry depicting broken hearts and wretched minds may not be the safest thing for him and suggested he begin reading "our best moralists, such collections of the finest letters, such memoirs of characters of worth and suffering...[that would] rouse and fortify the mind" (Ch. 11).

Persuasion is a novel about second chances.  It was Jane Austen's last work.  She wrote it during her illness which led to the end of her life at the young age of 42.

Jane Austen, was perhaps thinking about her own life when she wrote Persuasion, about her missed chances at love and marriage. About the nature of relationships in her society, and how love was secondary if allowed in the decision to marry at all.  I think the examination of Austen's society in this book is very thorough and insightful. 

Jane Austen reminisces in this book and as always, gives her characters a chance to find each other again, a chance that she did not have herself in her lifetime. 

The title of the book is very appropriate.  Jane Austen has succeeded in persuading the reader that love in marriage does matter and that life is about second chances. All her books teach the reader, Persuasion, as her last, gives us that happy ending that we so crave, along with Jane, who did not succeed in attaining for herself.  But she never disappoints with her characters. 

It is not only Anne's experience that relates to the title.  Mary is often "persuaded" that she is sick, simply because she is restless and unhappy.  William Elliot is "persuaded" that Anne will be happy to marry him because he has good graces and respectability and because he flatters her.  Henrietta and Louisa are easily persusaded to believe themselves in love with Captain Wentworth, although they both obviously turn to others.  Captain Wentworth is easily persuaded to believe that Anne will marry her cousin.

Austen is using her characters to criticize rash judgements and biases, whether based on our own wrong assumptions or based on the assumptions and too forceful guidance of others.  For today's time period, Assumptions would probably prove a better title.  However, for the language of the time, Persuasion suits the book quite well.

The title is fitting because the novel traces Anne's regrets and suffering after she is "persuaded" not to marry Wentworth as a young woman. She follows the advice of her mother's dear friend, Lady Russell, and rejects Wentworth's proposal even though they love one another. During this time, class distinctions were a large concern, and, Anne, as a baronet's daughter, is of a much higher class than Wentworth. The novel follows a time eight years after their original break-up; Wentworth has become Capt. Wentworth and distinguished himself in the Napoleonic Wars. He and Anne meet again and fall in love again. The match is much more acceptable to Anne's family and friends at this time because Wentworth has accumulated a large fortune.