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This is exactly what the inventor of Monopoly went through, unfortunately. In 1866, in Macomb, Illinois, a daughter was born to James Magie, a newspaper publisher and an advocate of economic reform.

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Elizabeth “Lizzie” Magie was born in 1866 in Macomb during the heart of the Reconstruction era. The daughter of James Magie, a newspaper publisher and an abolitionist who once traveled ...

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The dishwasher, chocolate-chip cookies, and the first version of the Monopoly board game were all created by women.

Elizabeth Magie Phillips, known as Lizzie Magie, was born in the United States in 1866 and was a passionate feminist and activist for social equality through the redistribution of wealth. She's ...

Elizabeth Magie died in Staunton, Virginia, in 1948 at the age of 81. She lived long enough to see the success of her game, but not to see her work recognized. This article was translated from German.

The first version of what became Monopoly was made by Elizabeth Magie in the early 1900s under “The Landlord’s Game.” ...

The article describes how Elizabeth Magie created the original version of Monopoly to challenge the unfairness of capitalism and property ownership.

A portrait of writer and feminist Elizabeth Magie was nearby. Lost to the vagaries of history, she invented The Landlord Game, an early rendering of Monopoly. Her intention was to inform players as to ...

(In the film, Reed notes that the Landlord's Game, a game virtually identical to Monopoly, was created by feminist writer Elizabeth Magie before Parker Brothers bought the patent and converted it ...