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It is very doubtful that there was ever a historical "Mothering Sunday" on the fourth Sunday of Lent, as Constance Smith claimed in her "history". This does not appear in either the written historical record, the liturgical calendar or the cultural record. Miss Smith was certainly inspired by the American Mother's Day, but in endeavouring to find British cultural basis for it (she was uncomfortable with something so American and modern) she fabricated history to make claims for a several centuries' old tradition that never existed. Aside from a small number of highly localised practices, there is really no evidence to support Miss Smith's narrative.
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