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.

Anna Jarvis founded Mother’s Day to honor her beloved mother, then spent the rest of her life fighting the holiday’s commercial and political exploitation. She died alone in an asylum.

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

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." ...

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 ...

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 spearheaded the effort to make Mother's Day a national holiday, she later grew to despise the holiday for being overly commercialized. Just $2 for 6 months! SUBSCRIBE NOW.

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.

Twelve-year-old Anna Jarvis remembered that. Her mother died in 1905, and Jarvis, then in her 40s, promised at her gravesite that she’d be the one to answer her prayer.