By now, you have probably seen the Mother’s Day Google doodle, received and sent WhatsApp messages, read the “best gift ideas for your mom” listicles for inspiration, and may have even posted on Instagram or Facebook to mark the day. C hances are, in all these interactions with Mother’s Day, you have not once come across the name “Anna Jarvis”. That is because Jarvis’s relationship with the day she founded was complicated — while she had worked tirelessly to get “Mother’s Day” officially recognised, she eventually came to hate the commercialisation of it, and spent the last of her energy and money campaigning against it. Who created Mother’s Day? Anna Jarvis (May 1, 1864 – November 24, 1948) was an American activist who founded Mother’s Day to honour her and “all mothers” in 1908. She grew up in West Virginia in turbulent years — the Civil War guns were booming when she was born, and she saw several siblings die of diseases like measles, typhoid, and diphtheria.…