Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. It also features as a cheap nightlight in his ghost story "Dolph Heyliger", in which the protagonist spends the night in a haunted house with nothing but a rushlight to illuminate a dilapidated room: "The rushlight, which stood in the centre of the deal table, shed a feeble yellow ray, dimly illumining the chamber, and making uncouth shapes and shadows on the walls, from the clothes which Dolph had thrown over a chair." Ken Follett mentions rushlights numerous times in The Pillars of the Earth, as in "there might be a few people sitting up late, drinking ale by the glow of the fire or sewing by rushlights" in chapter four. Pip spends a night staring at a nightlight in chapter XLV of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. "Camilla have five pound fur to buy rushlights to put her in spirits when she wake up in the night." – Chapter LVII of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. Several magazines are named after rushlights. Rushlight is a literary and visual arts journal founded in 1855 by Lucy Larcom and published by Wheaton College (Massachusetts). The Rushlight is a quarterly newsletter of the International Association of Collectors and Students of Historic Lighting. Rushlight (The Belfast Magazine) is a journal of Belfast history and folklore founded by Joe Graham. The name Rushlite was used during and for a while after World War II as a trademark of J. V. Rushton of Wolverhampton. "During the war Mr Rushton started to sell his own Rushlite Batteries through Halfords shop." Ezra Pound references rushlights at the end of Canto CXVI, the last of The Cantos that he completed: The hymn "All things bright and beautiful" 4th verse "The rushes by the water we gather every day" See also List of light sources References Further reading Collections Historical and Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire and its Borders, volume XXIII (1889), pages 382-388 (Gilbert White's description of rushlight making, followed by drawings and descriptions of rushlight holders) The Rushlight and Related Holders A Regional View by Robert Ashley Publisher:Ashley Publications 2001 ( ) Candles