Boffin's

-- And worse: behold the dustman's mounds of Boffin's Bower, supposedly in the near vicinity of Holloway, looming in this abridged metropolis over Fascination Fledgeby's rooms in the Albany, the West End's very heart!

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

"Look here, old girl," said Tims at last, when they reached for the second time the seat under the willow trellis, "I'm going to sit down here, unless you'll come to tea at Boffin's."

The Invader A Novel

The truth of the whole matter I think, almost certainly, is that Dickens did not originally mean Boffin's lapse to be fictitious.

Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens 1905

If Dickens had fulfilled what was probably his original design, and described the slow freezing of Boffin's soul in prosperity, I do not say that he would have done the thing well.

Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens 1905

For Mr. Pickwick's spectacles and gaiters and Mr.. Boffin's bonnets and boudoir are after all superficial jokes; and might be equally well seen whatever we saw beneath them.

What I Saw in America 1905

The porters 'lodges of the Colleges were besieged, and Boffin's Refreshment Rooms ran over with hungry parsons from the country.

Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography George William Erskine Russell 1886

"If they want you to hear, why don't they ask you to sit down and hear comfortably?" said Elise Mokey, who had got her social science -- with a _little_ warp in it -- from Boffin's Bower.

The Other Girls 1865

"Boffin's Bower" was all alert with aggressive, independent movement.

The Other Girls 1865

Rising from friendless poverty, she became widely known as a champion of human rights, and woman's rights, and, finally, as the founder and indefatigable sustainer of that benevolent institution widely known as Boffin's bower.

Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 1856

We never did quarrel, before we come into Boffin's

Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841