Ella Cheever Thayer (September 14, 1849 – October 28, 1925) was an American playwright and novelist.
Born in Maine, she worked as a telegraph operator and published several works in her lifetime, including the hit 1879 novel Wired Love: A Romance in Dots and Dashes.
Thayer eventually became a telegraph operator[2] at the Brunswick Hotel[3] in Boston, Massachusetts, who used her experience on the telegraph as the basis for her book Wired Love, A Romance of Dots and Dashes,[4] which became a bestseller for 10 years.
She also wrote short stories for magazines including "The Forgotten Past" in Argosy (January 1897).
[9] Thayer died of liver cancer; her ashes were placed in Bigelow Chapel, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 1, 1925.