Wired Love; A Romance of Dots and Dashes (Paperback)

from Herenya

I have been meaning to read this for years. It is about Nattie, a telegraph operator who chats whenever she can “over the wire” with C., another telegraph operator miles down the line. I love stories where characters fall in love through exchanged messages. (Is there a simple title for this dyna...

from thatotter

If this book had been written today, I would have found it dreadfully twee and affected. As it was written in 1880, I found it pretty delightful. The world needs more slice-of-life literature about 19th-century telegraph operators.

from BraveNewBks

Perhaps presaging the advent of internet dating, this is a lovely old-fashioned story about a telegraph operator who begins to fall in love with another telegraph operator -- though of course they've never met, they've only spoken to each other "on the wire."If you are able to enjoy a late-1800s ...

from zeborah

Long before the rise of the internet, this book deals with the joys and perils of falling in love sight unseen. The telegraphing was fun and the relationship sweet albeit rife with the paternalism of the time. Then follows some fairly trite and predictable Comedic Misunderstandings whose purpose ...