Founder Anna Jarvis may not have wanted Mother's Day to become a retail juggernaut but that hasn't stopped children from buying gifts, flowers, and sweets to honor their mothers.

After successfully advocating for designation of a national Mother's Day to honor her mom, Anna Jarvis fought its commercialization.

However, it was Jarvis’ daughter, Anna, who would go on to campaign for the adoption of Mother’s Day as a national holiday. Although the younger Jarvis’ vision stood in stark contrast with ...

The real history of Mother's Day is fraught with resentment and tragedy as its founder, Anna Jarvis, would eventually come to campaign against the holiday for the rest of her life. ArtBackground ...

Grafton native Anna Jarvis is widely recognized as the founder of Mother’s Day. But her mother, Ann Jarvis, played an essential and often overlooked role.

Anna Jarvis created Mother's Day in honor of her late mother, but later protested the commercialization of the holiday and was arrested multiple times for disturbing the peace.

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.

Anna Jarvis created Mother's Day in honor of her late mother, but later protested the commercialization of the holiday and was arrested multiple times for disturbing the peace. (Library of Congress) ...

Anna Jarvis spearheaded the effort to make Mother's Day a national holiday, she later grew to despise the holiday for being overly commercialized.

The first Mother's Day was organized on May 10, 1908 in West Virginia and Pennsylvania The so-called “mother” of Mother’s Day is Anna Jarvis, a copywriter from West Virginia.

After spending years fighting for Mother’s Day to become a national celebration, Anna Jarvis spent the rest of her life trying to destroy it.

Brits spend an estimated £1.6 billion on Mother's Day. But, the occasion's founder - Anna Jarvis - had a very different vision for the occasion.