Emily Marshall

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Not to be confused with Emily Otis.

Emily Marshall
Born
Emily Esther Marshall

4 December 1832
Upper Clapton, London, England
Died23 June 1915 (1915-06-24) (aged 82)
Ripon, England
Educationat home
Occupationof " independent means"
Known forchampioning women in the Anglican church and reviving the Third Order of Saint Francis
RelativesProctor Swaby (brother in law)

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.

Life

Marshall was born in

underwriter and her parents had her educated at home. She was of " independent means" and made her home in Sunderland where her brother in law, Proctor Swaby, was the minister in Casteletown. She was one of his pastoral assistants.[1]

The

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". Marshall discussed with Lightfoot her plans[1] and she saw that a revival of a Third Order of Saint Francis would assist.[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). The book was included in the Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books in 1894.[3] Marshall]] obtained went to meet him and told her more and he agreed that her ideas for reviving the Third Order were in line with ideas of St Francis. As a result, she wrote "The dawn breaking, and some thoughts on the third order of St. Francis, with translation from the French" in 1896. Her ideas took root in the Anglican church in Guyana.[4]

However Lightfoot's death in 1889 resulted in her plans being shut down in England. Bishop

Bishop in Guyana.[1]

In Guyana her brother-in-law encouraged the development of a Third Order of Saint Francis within the Anglican church based on her work.

the Windward Islands in December 1899[5]/1900 then the new order quickly took hold.[1]

Marshall had created a new religious order within the church based on Lightfoot's discussion of the Third Order of Saint Francis who had historically consisted of men and women who did not live in monasteries or wear cowls. Marshall however regretted throughout her life that the diaconate idea had been lost due to his death.[1]

Marshall died in Ripon.

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/42195. Retrieved 10 January 2023. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^ Sharpe, Rosemary Ann (1993). Franciscan values and social contexts: A sociological study of founders of Anglican Franciscan Third Orders, 1882–1939 (phd thesis). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  3. ISBN 9781135960278
    .
  4. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/42195. Retrieved 11 January 2023. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  5. ISSN 0009-658X
    . Retrieved 15 March 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.

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