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Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes

by Ella Cheever Thayer

3.87 · Rating Details · 476 Ratings · 101 Reviews

This book published in 1879 mulls what how authentic a romance can be that is mediated over the wire by two telegraph operators.

An excerpt from the book:But a very significant noise to Miss Nathalie Rogers, or Nattie, as shewas usually abbreviated; a noise that caused her to lay aside her book,and jump up hastily, exclaiming, with a gesture of impatience:--"Somebody always ...more

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Sep 02, 2009 Shala Howell rated it really liked it

In all honesty, I have to point out that I actually read the scanned version of this book available (for free) for download through Google Books. I've long been intrigued by the similarities between our times and the 1880s, and this book points out another connection. It tells the story of an early online romance conducted between telegraph operators. The relationship progresses much as you would expect it to if it were conducted using say, Match.com, today. Pitfalls are recognizable to anyone w ...more

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Sep 18, 2009 Karen rated it really liked it

A delightful read - a romance written back in 1880! Thanks to the tip that turned me onto this book, available online at Google books. Google is scanning old library books whose copyrights have expired. Love it!

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Jul 05, 2010 Kathryn rated it really liked it

This was a joyful surprise. I was immediately drawn in by the similarities of the long distance communication via telegraph and today's chat rooms, as well as other comments concerning technology. The author had a wonderful grasp of where technology (cell phones!) was headed. And then the characters grabbed hold of me. The various personalities and the situations they found themselves had me laughing out loud through the grand majority of the book. It was such a fun, light read.

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Jun 27, 2012 MyBookAffair rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

'Wired Love- A Romance of Dots and Dashes', by Ella Cheever Thayer (1849-1925), is an enchanting book about a love affair between two telegraphers in America, code names 'N' and 'C'. The couple fall victim to the dangers that internet chat-room users are faced with today: coming into unusually close contact with strangers. For the first few chapters, 'N', known as Nattie, has no idea if the grapher on the end of the line is a man or a woman. She leads a double life - her 'online' life and her hu ...more

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Mar 08, 2013 Alisha Trenalone rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Tremendously cute. The type of story in the "Shop Around the Corner" and "You've Got Mail" genre, although this one pre-dates both.

Nattie, a young woman who has obtained a post in a telegraph office, is having a particularly bad few minutes. The telegrapher on the other end is sending way too fast for her to decipher, a customer is asking stupid questions, and then she upsets a bottle of ink all over herself. These things cause her to interrupt "C" (the telegrapher on the other end) several time ...more

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Aug 03, 2013 Janell Sutherland rated it liked it

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Miss Nathalie Rogers, aka Nattie, is a telegraph operator in the 1870s. She is eighteen and lives in a boarding hotel, having left her family so that they won’t have to support her. She is independent, smart, and aspires to be a writer someday, once she finds the time.

One day, at work, another telegraph operator some sixty miles away begins to chat with her through Morse code. They begin telling stories, laughing (“the circumstance being conveyed to her u This review also posted on Red Hot Books.

Miss Nathalie Rogers, aka Nattie, is a telegraph operator in the 1870s. She is eighteen and lives in a boarding hotel, having left her family so that they won’t have to support her. She is independent, smart, and aspires to be a writer someday, once she finds the time.

One day, at work, another telegraph operator some sixty miles away begins to chat with her through Morse code. They begin telling stories, laughing (“the circumstance being conveyed to her understanding in the usual way, by the two letters ‘H a!’”), and keeping each other company.

It soon slips that the other operator, “C,” is a man named Clem, and Nattie finds herself wondering what he looks like. She knows it’s silly to even think about him romantically, since “she was not the kind of girl to sit down and wait for someone to come along and marry her.” Still, she goes to work early and stays late just to have uninterrupted conversations with him.

One day, C takes the day off, and then surprises Nattie by showing up at her station. Unfortunately he has greasy red hair, wears big, fake jewelry, and has a musky odor. She is shocked and disappointed, and manages to ignore him over the wire after that.

Allow me to interject here and say that this was probably a lot of young women’s experience in the early 1990s, am I right? Meeting someone over the telephone line connected to your computer? Chatting and emailing with someone you haven’t seen, perhaps snail-mailing photographs to each other? The first picture I received of that sort was kind of a shock, in an older-and-balder-than-I-expected way, so I felt for our heroine here. Dreams dashed, alas!

A few weeks later, C leaves his job permanently. Then, when Nattie and her opera singer friend Cyn are having a bohemian picnic in Cyn’s small parlor, their neighbor Quimby drops by with friend. The friend turns out to be the real Clem, heartbroken from Nattie’s unexplained brushoff. Nat is delighted that he’s not really greasy and musky (an eavesdropper on the telegraph line was the impostor), but then she finds it difficult to relate to him in the real world among other people. “It is nicer talking on the wire, isn’t it?” he agrees.

Would anyone else like to share their contemporary-world parallels here? Me again? The second picture I received from a different online friend was a vast improvement from the first (I may have exclaimed, “He’s not ugly!” to my roommates). Then we managed to meet up in person, and it wasn’t terrible but it didn’t have the free-flowing, friendly banter that a romance novel would predict. It ended, well, awkwardly, and then he found a girlfriend in his own city and we lost touch. Dammit, someday I’m going to write that novel but with a much better ending!

So, anyway, Nattie and Clem and their group of wacky friends hang out and party, but Nattie begins to believe that Clem has fallen for her friend Cyn. Note to Clem: if you’re in love with a girl, you should maybe try to spend some time alone with her, okay? Nat gives Clem the cold shoulder again, and he almost gives up hope, until a well-timed comment from a nosy landlady gets him to finally profess his love — in Morse code — and Nat gets her romantic ending.

This is a cute, quirky book, and the characters are fun although one-dimensional. It’s interesting to compare their unsupervised lives with those of youthful aristocracy across the pond, who couldn’t be alone with someone of the opposite sex. I was surprised that Nattie, a young woman, could have such a respectable job at a young age, and aspirations beyond her telegraph office.

The most surprising fact, though, is that this book was published in 1880 by a thirty-year-old woman who was herself a former telegraph operator and a suffragette. It was a bestseller for ten years, and resurfaced about five years ago thanks to Project Gutenberg. It’s free! You can read it and feel pompous that you are reading “classic” literature that was also popular at the time and also happens to be a romance! Plus, the author uses the word “ejaculate” as a dialogue tag over and over, which will make you giggle. Go on, give it a whirl!

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Jan 05, 2014 Jessica rated it really liked it

I downloaded this book because of the tantalizing idea that people were falling in love through electronic means in the 1800s -- basically, the 19th century version of Catfish. I wasn't disappointed at all.

The story is cute. In all honesty, it reads like a romantic comedy, though it did a good job of surprising me with some of its twists now and then. One of its strengths is that we not only see the actions of the two people who have fallen for each other "over the wire," but those of others in ...more

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Jun 08, 2014 Gwern rated it really liked it

I read this on the strength of Clive Thompson's review Wired Love: A tale of catfishing, OK Cupid, and sexting … from 1880; I downloaded & read the Google Books version.

Thompson summarizes it:

...Nattie is at work one day when a telegraph operator in another city, who calls himself “C”, begins chatting her up. They engage in a virtual courtship, things get funny and romantic, until suddenly things take a most puzzling and mysterious turn.

It’s all quite nuttily modern. Wired Love anticipates e

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Sep 27, 2015 Kaion rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: humor, premodern, reviewed

It's just another day in the office when Nattie begins chatting with "C@Xn" over a customer service snafu. Soon enough, conversations with the witty "C" are the highlight of her day — a highlight for which she comes to work early and leaves late. Until the day he suggests that "C" and "N" should meet.

Ella Cheever Thayer has written the most topical book of 1999, a charming romcom that combines the cyber-pals of You've Got Mail with the urban-twenty-somethings-living-in-the-same-building of Frien ...more

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Aug 13, 2013 Darcie rated it really liked it

I need to read a nice little book, a book that did not include chopped-off wrists (The One I Left Behind by Jennifer McMahon, which we read for book group last week) or terrible people who deserve the misery they sow for each other (Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, also read for book group). This book did the trick.

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Sep 04, 2013 Gregory added it

You can get a free version of this as an ebook, in ePub format, from Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=BjAO...

This book has become recently famous due to the parallels between the plot of two young people following in love, sight unseen, over the wireless, and the modern phenomenon of internet dating, or hooking up, or virtual twerking, or whatever it's called. My favorite quote: "I suppose no one really means what they say on the wire. I am sure I do not!"

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Aug 31, 2013 Rachael rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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For all that it was written in 1880, Ella Thayer's "Wired Love" is still remarkably apt today. Two telegraph operators N (Natty) and C (Clem) meet over a wire while sending messages to each other; they flirt and become friends, but without actually meeting, there is no way to prove they are what they say they are - they just have each other's word - and living seventy miles apart, it is unlikely they will meet face-to-face. Via facebook and chat rooms we can meet people and strike up a romance - ...more

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Jul 17, 2015 J.M. rated it really liked it

Shelves: romance, on-the-phone, fiction

"We will soon be able to do everything by electricity; who knows but some genius will invent something for the especial use of lovers? something, for instance, to carry in their pockets, so when they are far away from each other, and pine for the sound of 'that beloved voice,' they will have only to take up this electrical apparatus, put it to their ears, and be happy. Ah! blissful lovers of the future!"

A nicely-crafted little melodrama. Funny (even 130some years after publication) and moving, w ...more

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Sep 27, 2013 Jessica rated it really liked it

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I've seen a lot of mentions of this book recently - I think this blog post from July 2013 is the one that got the buzz started. Wired Love was published in 1880 and is available for free from Project Gutenberg. It's a short, fluffy book about a woman who becomes infatuated with a person she talks to regularly but has never met - a telegraph operator working at a station about 70 miles away from her own. The buzz about the book in 2013 is, of course, due to the fact that it completely and perfect I've seen a lot of mentions of this book recently - I think this blog post from July 2013 is the one that got the buzz started. Wired Love was published in 1880 and is available for free from Project Gutenberg. It's a short, fluffy book about a woman who becomes infatuated with a person she talks to regularly but has never met - a telegraph operator working at a station about 70 miles away from her own. The buzz about the book in 2013 is, of course, due to the fact that it completely and perfectly describes the fascinations and concerns about meeting someone online. In 1880.

Nattie Rogers, age 19, works in a telegraph office but dreams of becoming a novelist. She's bored with her job, but one day another operator on the line strikes up a conversation with her over the wire. This is totally unprofessional behavior, and other operators on the wire begin to chide them about their conversations getting in the way of anyone else's ability to do business on the line - because Nattie and her new friend have started chatting nonstop from work.

Nattie is fascinated with her new friend, who signs messages with just an initial as all telegraph operators do, but she tries to deny that her feelings are blossoming into a serious crush. After all, she doesn't even know whether C. is a man or a woman! (Though it is no real spoiler to say that C.'s gender and romantic intentions toward Nattie are obvious to everyone but Nattie from quite early on.)

Interestingly, the book doesn't only play with the idea of falling in love with someone only through their words. By the book's halfway point, Nattie and C. have met, and now Nattie deals with the odd realization that she enjoys C.'s company greatly but that she got something different out of their chats over the wire than she does from their chats in the same room. The two begin to engineer ways to continue talking to each other through Morse code in addition to actual face-to-face conversations.

The whole thing is, like I said at the beginning, quite fluffly, and you'll probably get frustrated with Nattie for being so completely blind to other people's intentions (not to mention how she hogs the telegraph wire at work to flirt with another operator - I couldn't help feeling sympathy for the other operators on the line, who all seem pretty irritated that they are being subjected to so much idle chatter all day). However, it's also really sweet, and is fascinating to read just from a historical perspective. It's free and will only take a few hours of your time to get through, so it's well worth looking up! ...more

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Oct 01, 2013 Kate Schultz rated it it was amazing

I found this book for free download on Amazon, and was surprised to find out it was written in 1897--I thought it was going to be about Internet dating or something. I was happily surprised because it turned out to be a darling historical romance between two telegraph operators. They meet each other "on the wire" and being a romance that way, without ever meeting each other (until half way through the book.) Many other fun characters aid in the romance (the female protagonist lives in a boarding ...more

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Apr 30, 2014 Jane rated it really liked it

Many stories have been told over the years, of couples who meet and correspond without – or before – ever coming face to face. ‘Wired Love’ is a particularly lovely example of that type of story, and – given that it was published in 1879 – a strikingly modern story.

Nattie – Miss Nathalie Rogers – was making her own way in the world. She was bright, she was independent, she hoped to become a writer one day; and she had secured a room in a respectable boarding house and employment in the small, lo Many stories have been told over the years, of couples who meet and correspond without – or before – ever coming face to face. ‘Wired Love’ is a particularly lovely example of that type of story, and – given that it was published in 1879 – a strikingly modern story.

Nattie – Miss Nathalie Rogers – was making her own way in the world. She was bright, she was independent, she hoped to become a writer one day; and she had secured a room in a respectable boarding house and employment in the small, local telegraph office. I lked her from the start, and oh how I empathised with her when she had a difficult day.

She was trying to take down a message that was being sent far too quickly for her to transcribe, she was being interrupted by a customer asking foolish questions, and then she upsets a bottle of ink all over herself. Of course she had to ask “C” – who was sending that message from another telegraph office – to stop and repeat quite a few times. “C” lost patience with her , but when “N” stood up for herself and explained exactly what she was having to deal with “C” understood. The pair went on chatting over the wire – in Morse code – whenever things were quiet in their respective offices..

The relationship between “C” and “N” grew beautifully. They weren’t really supposed to chat on the wire, but the other operators in their circuit were tolerant, and curious about what might happen. They knew that ”C” was a man, and Nattie knew too but he was so easy to talk to, she never expected to never meet him in person, and so she was maybe a little more open than she should have been.

“C” and “N” did meet – of course they did – and Nattie’s friend Cynthia, who was intrigued by the relationship that grew on the wire, drew him into their social circle. But things didn’t play out as Cynthia hoped. “N” was shy with “C” is real life, and quite sure that he would fall in love with Cynthia. And “C” was sure that “N” had another admirer; she did, but she could never see him as more that a friend.

The story played out perfectly, with a lovely mixture of comedy, drama and romance. The characters were beautifully drawn, and I particularly liked the way that Ella Cheever Thayer presented Nattie and Cynthia as modern, independent young women, with ambitions beyond matrimony, without pushing things too far.

Their friendship was beautifully drawn, and the pair brought out the best in each other.

The story was engaging, a likeable cast was well managed, and I wasn’t at all surprised to learn that the author was a playwright – this seems to have been her only novel – that she had worked as a telegraph operator. The story lived and breathed, and it rang true.

It was, at times, wonderfully prescient:

“Ah well then the young woman was only in advance of the age,” said Miss Archer; “and what with that and the telephone, and that dreadful phonograph that bottles up all one says and disgorges at inconvenient times, we will soon be able to do everything by electricity; who knows but some genius will invent something for the especial use of lovers? Something, for instance, to carry in their pockets, so when they are far away from each other, and pine for a sound of ‘that beloved voice,’ they will have only to take up this electrical apparatus, put it to their ears, and be happy. Ah, blissful lovers of the future!”

My only concern was how we were going to get to the inevitable ending, which was also the ending I wanted.

It came, of course, via the telegraph …..
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May 07, 2014 Ben rated it liked it

I believe this could very well be the first "Internet Romance" novel ever written!!! Published in 1880, it describes the romance between two telegraph operators: Nellie and an operator known only to her as "C". Our heroine is a young woman just gaining her independence and earning her way in a very male dominated field of work. Through a bit of serendipity, our protagonist meets "on the wire", the object of her growing affections,an unseen male operator in a distant town, who she becomes ever mo I believe this could very well be the first "Internet Romance" novel ever written!!! Published in 1880, it describes the romance between two telegraph operators: Nellie and an operator known only to her as "C". Our heroine is a young woman just gaining her independence and earning her way in a very male dominated field of work. Through a bit of serendipity, our protagonist meets "on the wire", the object of her growing affections,an unseen male operator in a distant town, who she becomes ever more enamored with while sending a receiving short messages between her one woman station and "C"'s remote outpost station some 70 miles distant. Neither of them have much hope of ever seeing each other due to the distances between them in a pre-automobile age but they slowly come to build a friendship that becomes something more than either ever expected. There is an interesting cast of secondary characters that adds depth and no small amount of humor (in a very 19th century vein...). The descriptions of life, love and customs of society at that time, as well as the limits of technology are very evident in the story. The author was in fact herself a telegraph operator as well as a writer so we get to hear in some authoritative detail about the work involved and descriptions of the equipment and the limits imposed on those who use it which adds a bit of authenticity to many situations. The only warnings I would issue to potential readers is that it is not a quick, easy read as the language is a bit archaic (not in a Shakespearean way mind you) and arcane, but still understandable for the most part. Most of the differences are in how sentences are structured and in word usage. The vocabulary can be a bit of a challenge too as some words used in this story mean something very different today. It is a story written by a woman of that time describing romance in a way that is decidedly more gentile and proper than the "bodice rippers"one finds on the book racks in the local supermarkets today. ...more

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May 27, 2014 Lou rated it it was ok

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Jun 23, 2014 Jayesh rated it really liked it

Gwern aptly described this as "nuttily modern" in his review. Anticipating everything we've come to expect from what goes online: from anonymous internet chat to cellphones (and that too in 1879). All in all a very amusing Victorian romance novel.

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Jul 15, 2014 Jarrah rated it it was ok

Shelves: setting-usa, adult-fiction, romance

Nattie rather enjoys her work as a telegraph operator: it's sometimes monotonous and her little office is rather confined, but there's a romance to those messages flying up and down the wire. Then she strikes up a friendship with another operator further down the wire, who signs themself "C", and even though C and Nattie only communicate in dots and dashes, their conversations become the highlight of Nattie's day.

This is a fairly sweet but unremarkable romance, other than the telegraph-age inter ...more

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Feb 25, 2015 Christopher White rated it it was amazing

One reason I gave this book a 5-star rating is because...it's FREE! You can get it from Project Gutenberg, or from Google Play Books.

This is a cute story...a precursor to 'online dating', but over the telegraph! There are remarkable parallels to the behavior that goes on today, and even a spooky accurate prediction of the cellular phone. A number of themes come together in this book...a frustratingly rigid study of Victorian etiquette, an emerging technology that threatens the old social order, ...more

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Jul 01, 2016 Jen rated it really liked it

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You've got to hand it to Ella Cheever Thayer. In her novel Wired Love, she anticipated online dating, smartphones, and catfishing—in 1879. I only wish she were around now; these are confusing times, and we could use someone with that kind of foresight.

The "wired love" of the title is a romance between Nattie, a telegraph operator, and "C", another operator whom she meets "on the wires." After a rocky meeting, they strike up a friendship and chat constantly over the wires between sending messages ...more

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Jan 19, 2016 Jessica Rackley rated it really liked it

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Such a good story! Almost a mixture between You've Got Mail and Emma but funnier than both. Just so cute and sweet and proper. Classic story of love the personality not the being.

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Nov 21, 2015 Muthuprakash Ravindran rated it liked it · review of another edition

So N and C fall in love over the latest of the communication technology and they go through a series of emotions that such long distance, invisible chat will bring through. After meeting each other and hating for that, they finally unite and love triumphs..

It is an ordinary story but the brilliance of this book is that it was written in the 1890s and the latest technology here is the telegraph. So it is fun to read that all the ills that we associate with modern technology has been in existence ...more

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Nov 12, 2015 Agnieszka rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, women-writers

Usually when I review a book from previous centuries, I have to preface it with warnings about the bits that are dated, weird, or offensive to modern sensibilities. No such preamble is needed here.

The book is a bit prescient in that it presents that unfolding of a romance between two people who first meet as operators over a telegraph wire. Maybe that's dated again because now when people meet online they often do know what each looks like. Still, the story, including the fascination of the unkn ...more

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Nov 27, 2015 rogue rated it liked it

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Whenever I start to forget that times change but people stay the same, a book like this comes along to remind me how much we have in common with the past. We've all asked ourselves, "How would someone from the 1800s react if you stuck them through a time machine and brought them to today?" Well--Ella Cheever Thayer and her characters would survive this experiment perfectly intact.

"Wired Love" is a fresh and modern sounding book, with ambitious go-getting women (Nattie, Cyn) who don't allow them ...more

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Feb 16, 2016 Luke rated it liked it

A delightful novel, Wired Love asks fascinating questions of the accuracy of representation with the increasing role in technology. This novel tells of a romance that begins over telegraph. Although the romance follows a typical story arch, fascinatingly enough, "crossed wires"--i.e. miscommunications--keep inhibiting the lovers from an unfettered relationship. Even in the era with just the telegraph, then, technology begins to infuse itself through terminology (the lovers use much jargon in the ...more

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Apr 22, 2016 Altivo Overo rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Very well done tangled romance (like Shakespeare in fact) based on a friendship developed between two telegraph operators who have never seen each other in person.

This is a period piece (1879) and some of the social conventions and attitudes seem a bit narrow to us 150 years later, but even so it is entertaining. The similarity to stories of "distance" relationships formed over the internet today or through correspondence even longer ago than this setting is striking.

A short novel, easy reading ...more

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Aug 18, 2016 Emy rated it really liked it

an 1800's catfish love story, how can anyone not like this?!

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Oct 12, 2016 Melinda rated it it was amazing

Loved this sweet romance.

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Ella Cheever Thayer (September 14, 1849 – 1925) was a playwright and novelist. A former telegraph operator at the Brunswick Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, who used her experience on the telegraph as the basis for a book ("Wired Love, A Romance of Dots and Dashes" was a bestseller for 10 years). She was a playwright, writing "The Lords of Creation" in 1883 as a suffragette (her play is reviewed in ...more

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