Ella Cheever Thayer Writer

Ella Cheever Thayer (September 14, 1849 – October 28, 1925) was the daughter of apothecary George Augusta Thayer [October 19, 1824 – December 13, 1863] and homemaker Rachel Ella Cheever Thayer [October 18m 1823-May 15, 1907]. One sister, Mary Georgie Thayer [October 9, 1869 – March 30, 1912], was a school teacher. Ella was a playwright and novelist. A former telegraph operator at the Brunswick Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, who used her experience on the telegraph as the basis for a book ("Wired Love, A Romance of Dots and Dashes" was a bestseller for 10 years). She was a playwright, writing "The Lords of Creation" in 1883 as a suffragette (her play is reviewed in the book "On to Victory: Propaganda Plays of the Woman's Suffrage Movement" by Bettina Friedl, Published in 1990, ISBN 1-55553-073-7) and it was one of the first suffragette plays. She also wrote "Amber, a Daughter of Bohemia", a drama in 5 acts, in 1883. She also wrote short stories for magazines including "The Forgotten Past" in Argosy (magazine) (January, 1897).She lived in Saugus, Massachusetts. Thayer died of liver cancer; her ashes were placed on November 1, 1925 in Biglow Chapel, Mt Auburn, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts