While dining at a Philadelphia tearoom owned by her friend John Wanamaker, Anna Jarvis ordered a salad — then dumped it on the floor. Jarvis hated that the dish was called “Mother’s Day ...

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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. How did the idea of a day to honor mothers become such a focus of Anna Jarvis ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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. An estimated 15,000 people attended the ...

Anna Jarvis was born in 1864 in West Virginia. She was one of her mother's more than 12 children -- though most died from diseases like measles. During the Civil War, Anna's mother, Ann Maria ...

The Mother’s Day we celebrate on the second Sunday in May exists largely due to the incessant efforts—some might say maniacal single-mindedness—of a woman named Anna Jarvis. But Jarvis wasn ...

But it is the polar opposite of what the day’s founder, Anna Jarvis, actually intended. Born in Webster, West Virginia in 1864, Anna Jarvis was one of 13 children, although just four lived to ...

Mother's Day in the U.S. is celebrated on the second Sunday of May, while in Mexico it's celebrated annually on May 10. The modern Mother's Day originated with Ann Jarvis's efforts to promote ...

The American version of Mother’s Day was created by Anna Jarvis in 1908, but it didn’t become an official U.S. holiday until 1914. This year, Mother’s Day falls on Sunday, May 11 ...