Winifred Rudge

Winifred "Winnie" Rudge is the main character in Lost. She is an author of young adult books and travels to London to stay with her friend and step-cousin John Cormestor while working on a novel about a woman who is haunted by the ghost of Jack of Ripper.

Throughout Lost, Winnie frequently gets swept away in her imagination, and the narration is interrupted by Winnie's mental narration of the Wendy Pritzke book she is writing. As the novel wears on, it becomes clearer that the character of Wendy is just an extension of Winnie; their stories are increasingly similar until it is finally revealed to readers that Wendy is Winnie's middle name, and Pritzke had been Winnie's married name. Essentially, Winnie's current book project is her own autobiographical story.

Winnie was once married and about to adopt a child from Romania, but due to her illness, her...