Anna Jarvis, who launched the Mother’s Day movement in 1908 in honor of her own remarkable mother, would have had very complicated feelings about what the day has become, ...

Anna Jarvis, the holiday's founder, wanted moms to have a deeply personal day to celebrate them. Her vision for the holiday was to be a tribute to "the best mother who ever lived, yours." ...

Anna Jarvis founded Mother’s Day, then fought for decades against its commercialization, draining what wealth she had. She died alone and penniless.

Years after she founded Mother’s Day, Anna Jarvis was dining at the Tea Room at Wanamaker’s department store in Philadelphia. She saw they were offering a “Mother’s Day Salad.” She ...

Anna Jarvis spearheaded the effort to make Mother's Day a national holiday, she later grew to despise the holiday for being overly commercialized. 3 months/99¢ a month SUBSCRIBE NOW.

A 12-year-old Anna Jarvis overheard her mother’s prayer for a day honoring mothers, said Katharine Antolini, an assistant professor of history at West Virginia Wesleyan College, ...

Anna Jarvis embarked on a campaign for a national holiday recognizing mothers, She was inspired by her own mother, Ann Jarvis ...

After Anna Jarvis inspired many others to follow her lead and write their mothers letters of gratitude, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation for the first national Mother's Day in 1914.

Jarvis died in May 1907. Her daughter, Anna, who lived in Philadelphia, organized the first official Mother’s Day service in 1908 in memory of her mother.