Sullivan Entertainment would like to sincerely thank everyone who took the time to create and submit their special Mother’s Day videos to our Sullivan Sing-Along contest!  It was really hard to choice our two winners (ages 18 and under, and 18 and over), as each person’s video was unique and heart felt.

In 1842, when she was just 11 years old, English poet Christina Rossetti wrote the following poem for her mother:

To My Mother

To-day’s your natal day,
Sweet flowers I bring;
Mother, accept, I pray,
My offering.

“Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.” ~ Lucy Stone

Having recently discussed some of the most memorable mothers in fiction, it seemed fitting to turn the tables and speak about women who actually lived.  Here is a list of ten famous mothers, from the Middle Ages to now, who have impacted the world with their intellect, power and selflessness.  Please add to the list!

This Mother’s Day, while writing cards to your mothers, take the time to think about what you’d really like to say.  The following famous figures did.  They made an effort to sum up their own thoughts about motherhood.  Some achieved it in a single phrase.

L.M. Montgomery was only one year and nine months old when her mother, pictured here, died of tuberculosis.  Maud shared the same fate as her character, Anne Shirley. Yet, as seen by the poem below, she was able to write so beautifully about the relationship between mother and child even without having consciously experienced it.

When venturing to form a list of the most famous, virtuous mothers in literature, I thought I would have an easy task.  Some easily sprang to mind – the aggravating, yet loveable, Mrs. Bennet, the stoic matriarch of the March family, Marmee, and the soft-tempered farmer’s wife, Caroline Ingalls.

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Oprah Winfrey once said, “Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother”.  Yesterday, we took a look at how Anne Shirley yearned to be loved by a mother in the days before coming to Green Gables.  Today, here’s a glimpse of what it meant to Marilla to finally give the love of a mother to another – an experience she never thought she’d have.

Here are some traditional recipes that will help make the prefect Mother’s Day brunch, whether your children make it for you or you help them along the way.  First is a simple guide to making mouth-watering French toast, followed by a twist on traditional coffee cake - both taken from Kevin Sullivan’s book, Beyond Green Gables.

Becoming an orphan at only three months old, you would think Anne Shirley has a very limited sense of what it means to be nurtured and loved by one’s own mother.  But her deep perception of what a gift it is to be accepted into a home and cared for as though she were the rightful child of two adults, is clearly shown in these three beautiful excerpts from L.M. Montgomery’s work.