Lady Teresa Waugh Explained

Lady Teresa Lorraine Waugh (née Onslow; born 26 February 1940) is a British novelist and translator.^[1]

Waugh was born at 11 Ormonde Gate, Chelsea, London, the daughter of the 6th Earl of Onslow (then Viscount Cranley)^[2] and his first wife, Pamela Dillon. On 1 July 1961, she married the author Auberon Waugh, eldest son of Evelyn Waugh.^[3]

Waugh has translated such works as Anka Muhlstein's A Taste For Freedom: The life of Astolphe de Custine (2000),^[4] Benedetta Craveri's Madame Du Deffand and Her World (1994)^[5] and The Travels of Marco Polo (1984).^[6] In 1980, she translated the book of the Iranian "Shah" Mohammad Reza Pahlavi from French to English under the title of Shah's life.^[7]

Her own novels include Painting Water (1983),^[8] Waterloo Waterloo (1985),^[9] An Intolerable Burden (1987),^[10] Song at Twilight (1989),^[11] The House (2002),^[12] Sylvia's Lot (1994)^[13] and The Gossips (1995).^[14] The Entertaining Book (1986) is not a novel but a book about food and wine written with her husband.^[15]

Auberon and Teresa Waugh had four children together:^[3]

• Margaret Sophia Laura Waugh (born 1962)
• Alexander Evelyn Michael Waugh (30 December 1963 – 22 July 2024)
• Daisy Louisa Dominica Waugh (born 1967)
• Nathaniel Thomas Biafra Waugh (born 1968).

Notes and References

1. Web site: Teresa Waugh . Hachette . 20 August 2024.
2. News: Births . . 28 February 1940.
3. Book: Mosley, Charles . Burke's peerage, baronetage & knightage, clan chiefs, Scottish feudal barons . 2 . 27 July 2003 . Burke's Peerage & Gentry . 774632725.
4. Web site: Teresa Waugh . New York Review oBooks.
5. Web site: Madame du Deffand and Her World . Benedetta . Craveri . Teresa . Waugh . 2002 . Peter Halban . 52739039. Open WorldCat.
6. Web site: The Travels of Marco Polo . Teresa . Waugh . 1984 . Sidgwick & Jackson . 989053938 . Open WorldCat.
7. Web site: Shah's Story. Translated from French by Teresa Waugh.. Teresa . Waugh . Mohammad Reza . Pahlavi . 27 July 1980 . Vikas . 757910184. Open WorldCat.
8. Web site: Painting Water . Teresa . Waugh . 1986 . Penguin . 14719733 . Open WorldCat.
9. Web site: Waterloo, Waterloo . Teresa . Waugh . 27 July 1987 . Penguin . 15896587 . Open WorldCat.
10. Web site: An Intolerable Burden . Teresa . Waugh . 1988 . Hamilton . 1072510957 . Open WorldCat.
11. Web site: Song at Twilight . Teresa . Waugh . 1989 . Hamilton . 471079684 . Open WorldCat.
12. Web site: The House . Teresa . Waugh . 2004 . Isis . 224023173 . Open WorldCat.
13. Web site: Sylvia's Lot . 1995 . 221481292 . Open WorldCat.
14. Web site: The Gossips . Teresa . Waugh . 2000 . National Library for the Blind . 1107690076 . Open WorldCat.
15. Web site: The Entertaining Book . Teresa . Waugh . Auberon . Waugh . Glynn Boyd . Harte . 1986 . Hamish Hamilton . 804708716 . Open WorldCat.