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Holiday House, Childhood, and the End(s) of Time
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 41, 2013
- pp. 115-139
- 10.1353/chl.2013.0019
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This essay argues that Catherine Sinclair's novel Holiday House (1839) registers and protests an early-Victorian educational emphasis upon timekeeping. Sinclair represents a preoccupation with artificially-structured time as unhealthy or dangerous for children, most conspicuously through the character of Frank. She specifically indicts imperialism and expanding industry for producing these effects.