Wired Love (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Romance of Dots and DashesBy Ella Cheever Thayer
Length5h 43m
About this audiobook
Published in 1879, Ella Cheever Thayer's *Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes* is an inventive courtship novel shaped by the new technology of the telegraph. Its heroine, Nattie Rogers, a young telegraph operator, develops an intimate relationship with a fellow operator known initially only through his coded messages, confronting the emotional risks of loving an unseen correspondent. Thayer combines sentimental romance, social comedy, and technological novelty, using Morse code as both plot device and metaphor for the difficulties of communication. The novel belongs to the late-nineteenth-century tradition of women's popular fiction while anticipating modern narratives of anonymous, electronically mediated intimacy; its brisk dialogue and playful treatment of professional women give it an unusually modern energy. Ella Cheever Thayer was an American writer whose engagement with the possibilities of the telegraph reflects the profound cultural fascination with communications technology during the Gilded Age. At a moment when women were entering clerical and telegraphic occupations, Thayer recognized that technological change could unsettle conventional ideas about gender, work, privacy, and romance. Her attention to a woman pursuing skilled employment lends the novel a social dimension beyond its comic love plot, while her imaginative use of telegraphy reveals an author alert to how machines could reshape personal identity and emotional life. Readers interested in Victorian romance, women's professional history, media studies, or the literary prehistory of online relationships will find *Wired Love* especially rewarding. Its charm lies not merely in its novelty but in its perceptive examination of trust, concealment, and desire across distance. The book offers an entertaining narrative alongside a valuable record of how nineteenth-century fiction imagined technological modernity.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.9 (1.1K)
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GenreRomance, General Fiction
Length5 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 2, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I.
10CHAPTER X.
2CHAPTER II.
11CHAPTER XI.
3CHAPTER III.
12CHAPTER XII.
4CHAPTER IV.
13CHAPTER XIII.
5CHAPTER V.
14CHAPTER XIV.
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6CHAPTER VI.
15CHAPTER XV.
7CHAPTER VII.
16CHAPTER XVI.
8CHAPTER VIII
17Memorable Quotes
9CHAPTER IX.
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