Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes

by Ella Cheever Thayer

Overview

Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes, by Ella Cheever Thayer, 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: they begin to fall for the stranger on the other end of the line without knowing what they look like, who they are, or anything much about them. 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 humdrum normal life. She has her real, 'visible' friends, and this increasingly special 'invisible' friend. The humor in this novel is touching and farcical at times, and I found this to be one of the most charming aspects of the book. Charming is the perfect word for it as you fall in love with the characters and delight in the myriad of misunderstanding that makes this novel so highly cinematic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781546982920
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	05/28/2017
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.02(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Novelist and playwright Ella C. Thayer was a telegraph operator who used her professional experience as the basis for Wired Love. Her Lords of Creation was one of the first suffragette plays, and she also wrote short stories for magazines.

Table of Contents

I. Sounds from a Distant "C"
II. At the Hotel Norman
III. Visible and Invisible Friends
IV. Neighborly Calls
V. Quimby Bursts Forth in Eloquence
VI. Collapse of the Romance
VII. "Good-By"
VIII. The Feast
IX. Unexpected Visitors
X. The Broken Circuit Reunited
XI. Miss Kling Telegraphically Baffled
XII. Crosses on the Line
XIII. The Wrong Woman
XIV. Quimby Accepts the Situation
XV. One Summer Day
XVI. O. K.