The women behind Mother’s Day
May 08, 2021
3 minutes
TANYA WATERWORTH tanya.waterworth@inl.co.za
WHILE the origins of Mother’s Day can be traced back to honouring ancient Greek and Roman goddesses, Rhea and Cybele, it was the efforts of two US women, Ann Reeves Jarvis and her daughter, Anna Jarvis, who established the modern Mother’s Day celebration.
And when the day became too commercialised, Anna Jarvis organised boycotts, protests and lawsuits to have Mother’s Day banned from the national calendar, ending up
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