Actress, Dancer. In a career of over 30 years, she combined talent with a "little girl" voice and manner to charm audiences throughout the British Empire. Born Letitia Elizabeth Rudge, she was raised in the theatre by her actress mother, and made her professional debut at five as Eva in "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Soon, she was touring England with American writer Howard Paul and his wife. (Paul, a much older man, fathered two children with her). She first used the name "Letty Lind" for an 1879 production of "Locked Out" at the Princess Theatre in London; over the next 20 years, she was to tour extensively, primarily appearing in comedy and pantomime. Lind made her Gaiety Theatre debut in December, 1880, in "The Nine Days Queen"...1882 saw her at the Olympic for "The Exiles of Erin" and "Little Miss Muffet". In 1887, she returned to the Gaiety as Mariette in "Monte Cristo Junior", while she was also drawing good reviews at the Theatre Royal and at Drury Lane. Thru 1888 and 1889, she was touring Australia and the United States (Americans were disappointed that she didn't show more flesh); upon her return to England, Lind was to help popularize "skirt dancing", a somewhat difficult art (in which Lind was aided by her ballet training), that requires the girl to manipulate large amounts of fabric while dancing. She had a hit as Mercedes in "Carmen up to Data" (a spoof of Bizet's opera) in 1890, but, by the early 1890s, burlesque was fading in popularity, and Lind transitioned to musical comedy, making her debut at the Trafalgar Square Theatre as Maude in the 1893 "Morocco Bound". Around this time, she published a short story in "The Pelican" about a dancer encountering equipment problems during a performance, and wrote the music for "Dorothy Flop" which her "sister" (actually, cousin) Adelaide Astor made into a hit. Thru the 1890s, she had a string of successes at Daly's Theatre, including "A Gaiety Girl" (1894), "The Geisha" (1896), and as Iris in the 1898 "Greek Slave". Her only appearance at London's Palace Theatre was for an 1899 birthday gala. Lind retired to a farm in Slough in 1903. Her personal life was somewhat rocky, and she never married. (She had a child by the Third Earl of Durham in 1892; the Earl wanted to marry her, but was unable to divorce his wife, as she was in an insane asylum). She is said to have died after a short illness.