Lady_Teresa_Waugh
Lady Teresa Waugh
British novelist and translator (born 1940)
Lady Teresa Lorraine Waugh (née Onslow; born 26 February 1940) is a British novelist and translator.[1] Waugh is the daughter of the 6th Earl of Onslow and his first wife, Pamela Dillon. On 1 July 1961, she married the author Auberon Waugh, eldest son of Evelyn Waugh.[2]
Lady Teresa has translated such works as Anka Muhlstein's A Taste For Freedom: The life of Astolphe de Custine (2000),[3] Benedetta Craveri's Madame Du Deffand and Her World (1994),[4] and The Travels of Marco Polo (1984).[5] In 1980, she translated the book of Iran Shah" Muahammed radah" from Persian to English under the name of " Replay to history, 'the story of shah life'".[6]
She has also written her own novels, including Painting Water (1983),[7] Waterloo Waterloo (1985),[8] Intolerable Burden (1987),[9] Song at Twilight (1989),[10] The House (2002),[11] Sylvia's Lot (1994)[12] and The Gossips (1995).[13] The Entertaining Book (1986) is not a novel but a book about food and wine written with her husband.[14]
Auberon and Teresa Waugh had four children together:[2]
- Margaret Sophia Laura Waugh (born 1962)
- Alexander Evelyn Michael Waugh (born 1963)
- Daisy Louisa Dominica Waugh (born 1967)
- Nathaniel Thomas Biafra Waugh (born 1968).