Though small-framed, she had a presence - an audience at the Masonic Hall exploded with laughter at her comical rendition of a simpering old woman.
In the evenings, she pursued her literary ambitions, and as a player in Washington’s nascent theater scene, performed on the stage, where she earned praise for her comedic roles. When she wasn’t working, Magie, known to her friends as Lizzie, struggled to be heard creatively. The typewriter was gaining commercial popularity, leaving many to ponder a strange new world in which typists sat at desks, hands fixed to keys, memorizing seemingly illogical arrangements of letters on the new qwerty keyboards. At the time, stenography was a growing profession, one that opened up to women as the Civil War removed many men from the work force. In the early 1880s, Elizabeth Magie worked as a stenographer. The anti-monopoly movement also served as a staging area for women’s rights advocates, attracting followers like James and Elizabeth Magie.
MONOPOLY ORIGINAL FULL
His message resonated with many Americans in the late 1800s, when poverty and squalor were on full display in the country’s urban centers. George was a proponent of the “land value tax,” also known as the “single tax.” The general idea was to tax land, and only land, shifting the tax burden to wealthy landlords. As an anti-monopolist, James Magie drew from the theories of George, a charismatic politician and economist who believed that individuals should own 100 percent of what they made or created, but that everything found in nature, particularly land, should belong to everyone.
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