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Bookmark or Share- Mother's Day 2024 - Date, Founding & Traditions | HISTORYThe American incarnation of Mother’s Day was created by Anna Jarvis in 1908 and became an official U.S. holiday in 1914. Jarvis would later denounce the holiday’s commercialization and spent...
- Anna Jarvis: The woman who regretted creating Mother's Day - BBC9 May 2020. By Vibeke Venema,BBC Stories. Getty Images. The woman responsible for the creation of Mother's Day, marked in many countries on the second Sunday in May, would have approved of the...
- The Tenacious Woman Who Helped Keep Mother’s Day AliveARTS & CULTURE. The Tenacious Woman Who Helped Keep Mother’s Day Alive. For Anna Jarvis, a holiday devoted to moms was not sentimental fluff, but a practical exercise in patriotism. Katharine...
- Anna Jarvis - WikipediaAnna Maria Jarvis (May 1, 1864 – November 24, 1948) was the founder of Mother's Day in the United States. Her mother had frequently expressed a desire to establish such a holiday, and after her mother's death, Jarvis led the movement for the commemoration.
- The History of Mother’s Day: From Global Peace to Greeting CardsAnna Jarvis, however, soon grew discontented as she noted increasing commercialization of the celebration. What she had wanted to be an earnest “holy day” had become, in her eyes, a crass holiday benefitting florists and greeting card companies more than honoring the mothering work done by women. Anna was so distraught over the way ...
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