Holiday House is set in Edinburgh at some point before 1815.[2] It tells the story of siblings Laura, Harry, and Frank Graham, who live with their uncle and grandmother.[3] Their mother is dead and their father is out of the country.[3]
The narrative is constructed around two sets of episodes.[4] The first focusses on Laura and Harry's misbehaviour; the second emphasises their growing maturity.[5] In the second portion of the narrative, Frank joins the navy, falls ill, and dies.[6] Frank's death ends Laura and Harry's childish mischief and turns them toward a Christian ethic.[7]
In her preface to the novel, Sinclair rejects the didacticism that had dominated children's literature in English since the late 18th century.[1] She writes that Holiday House aims to show characters who exemplify "that species of noisy, frolicsome, mischievous children, now almost extinct".[8] Critics have viewed Holiday House as a transitional work between this earlier period and later children's fiction by authors including Lewis Carroll,[9] and have explored its gendered portrayal of childhood as preparation for imperial careers.[10]
Lesnik-Oberstein, Karin (2002). "Holiday House: Grist to The Mill on the Floss, or Childhood as Text". The Yearbook of English Studies. 32: 77–94. doi:10.2307/3509049. JSTOR3509049.
Valint, Alexandra (2011). "Mischief, Gender, and Empire: Raising Imperial Bachelors and Spinsters in Catherine Sinclair'sHoliday House". Children's Literature Association Quarterly. 36 (1): 64–88.
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