Abstract
In 1873 Louisa May Alcott finally completed her most ambitious novel to date, Work: A Story of Experience, begun more than a decade earlier. At one point in this account of the trials and tribulations of Christie Devon, a young workingwoman in Boston, Mr. Wilkins, a boarding-house owner, invites Christie to hear his minister, "Mr. Power." "Christie looked rather startled," Alcott wrote, "for she had heard of Thomas Power as a rampant radical and infidel of the deepest dye, and been warned never to visit that den of iniquity called his free church." But swayed by Wilkins's utter loyalty to the clergyman, Christie attends the meeting and is immediately won over by Power's moving sermon against "a powerful and popular wrong," probably slavery. "It was splendid," she exclaims. "I never heard such a sermon before, and I'll never go to church anywhere else again." 1
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