The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle Volume 2 Chapter 93

In which the youthful Peregrine, struck by pecuniary ills, resolves to employ his literary talents and soon finds himself inducted into a motley College of Authors, a society marked not only by mutual support but by fiery rivalry and boisterous disputes. The assembly, conducted amidst quips, quarrels, and broken wigs, offers our hero both mirth and insight into the theatrical world, concluding with the earnest arbitration of grievances among its curious members.