Rev. Gilbert White gave a detailed description of rushlight making in The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, Letter XXVI (1789).
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One of the earliest printed descriptions of rushlights was written by English antiquary John Aubrey in 1673.
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Anne Brontë mentions a rushlight in the end of chapter XXXIII of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
Oregon governor Oswald West pressured Rushlight to clean up the city, and some reforms were made.