Before there was internet chat rooms, Facebook, or OkCupid there was ? the telegraph. In this 19th-century bestseller, a pair of young telegraph operators meet "over the wire" and begin a romance, sight unseen, using Morse code as their secret language of love. Written in a remarkably modern voice, this charming tale offers both an authentic glimpse of Victorian society and a prescient view of online friendships. 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.