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    The short story "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier explores themes of poverty, maturity, and compassion through the lens of a young girl's experience growing up during the Great Depression in rural Maryland. Published in 1969 in Negro Digest, it was Collier's first published story and won the inaugural Gwendolyn Brooks prize for fiction. The story draws from the author's own early life.

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    The short story "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier explores themes of poverty, maturity, and compassion through the lens of a young girl's experience growing up during the Great Depression in rural Maryland. Published in 1969 in Negro Digest, it was Collier's first published story and won the inaugural Gwendolyn Brooks prize for fiction. The story draws from the author's own early life.

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    A marigold as seen in a small field.

    "Marigolds" is a 1969 short story by Eugenia


    Collier. The story draws from Collier's early life
    in rural Maryland during the Great Depression.
    Its themes include poverty, maturity and the
    relationship between innocence and
    compassion.[1] While teaching literature at the
    Community College of Baltimore County, she
    published "Marigolds" in Negro Digest, where it
    won the inaugural Gwendolyn Brooks prize for
    fiction; it was her first published story.[2]

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