Interesting People - Anna Jarvis

Today is Mothering Sunday in the UK. But, Anna Jarvis is the woman who invented the modern American incarnation of Mother's Day, which falls on the second Sunday in May.

(She became so distressed by its commercialisation that she tried to copyright the date to protect her idea. She failed. In the US nowadays Mother’s Day is the third most important card giving day after Christmas and Valentine’s Day. )