Emily Esther Marshall (4 December 1832 – 23 June 1915) was a British advocate of an ordained ministry for women and founder of an Anglican Franciscan third order.
B. Lightfoot had said that he was open to the idea of a diaconate that included women and in 1899 Marshall wrote a pamphlet titled A Suggestion for our Times on this theme.
As a result, Marshall said later that, she was told by Lightfoot to give her idea of training women in his diocese, "a practical form".
[2] She obtained a copy of Paul Sabatier's "Forbidden Book" La vie de St. François d'Assise (translated as Life of St. Francis of Assisi).
[1] Swaby's archdeacon Fortunato Pietro Luigi Josa had published St. Francis of Assisi and the Third Order in the Anglo-Catholic Church in 1898 quoting text from Marshall's writings but without naming her.