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Elizabeth "Lizzie" J. Phillips née Magie (1866–1948) was an American game designer and Georgist. She invented ''The Landlord's Game'', the precursor to ''Monopoly'', to illustrate teachings of the progressive era economist Henry George. == Life and works == Elizabeth J. Magie was born in Macomb, Illinois in 1866 to James Magie, a newspaper publisher and an abolitionist who accompanied Lincoln as he traveled around Illinois in the late 1850s debating politics with Stephen Douglas. James Magie introduced Lizzie to the economist Henry George's writing, specifically the book ''Progress and Poverty'', after which Magie became strong supporter of what at that time was called a ''single-tax'' system (Georgism). In the early 1880s she worked as a stenographer. She was also a short story and poetry writer, a comedian, stage actress, feminist, and engineer. In 1906 she worked as a newspaper reporter. In 1910 she married, at age 44, Albert Phillips.〔 (詳細はBrentwood, Maryland, and sought her first patent on it while living there. On March 23, 1903, Magie applied to the US Patent Office for a patent on her board game, which was designed to demonstrate the economic ill effects of land monopolism and the use of land value tax as a remedy for them. She was granted on January 5, 1904. In 1906, she moved to Chicago. That year, she and fellow Georgists formed the Economic Game Co. to self-publish her original edition of ''The Landlord's Game''. In 1910 she married Albert Phillips and Parker Brothers published her humorous card game Mock Trial. In 1912, ''The Landlord's Game'' was adapted in Scotland by the Newbie Game Co. as "Bre'r Fox and Bre'r Rabbit". Although the instructions claimed it was protected by a British patent, there is no evidence this was actually done. She and her husband moved back to the east coast of the U.S. and patented a revised version of the game in 1924; it received . As her original patent had expired in 1921, this is seen as her attempt to reassert control over her game, which was now being played at some colleges, where students made their own copies. In 1932, her second edition of ''The Landlord's Game'' was published by the ''Adgame Company'' of Washington D. C., probably another self-publishing effort. This version was two games in one, as there were alternate rules for a game called ''Prosperity'' After a January 1936 interview with her appeared in a Washington D. C. newspaper, in which she was somewhat critical of Parker Brothers, they agreed to publish two more of her games. They sold her final board game inventions ''Bargain Day'' and ''King's Men'' in 1937, and a third version of ''The Landlord's Game'' in 1939. In ''Bargain Day'', shoppers compete with each other in a department store; ''King's Men'' is an abstract strategy game. Few copies of the Parker Brothers version of ''The Landlord's Game'' are known to exist, but ''Bargain Day'' and ''King's Men'' are less rare. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elizabeth Magie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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