Lady Teresa Waugh


Lady Teresa Lorraine Waugh is a British novelist and translator.

Early life

Waugh was born at 11 Ormonde Gate, Chelsea, London, the daughter of William Onslow, 6th Earl of Onslow and his first wife Hon Pamela Dillon, daughter of Eric Dillon, 19th Viscount Dillon.

Career

Waugh has translated such works as Anka Muhlstein's A Taste For Freedom: The life of Astolphe de Custine, Benedetta Craveri's Madame Du Deffand and Her World and The Travels of Marco Polo. In 1980, she translated Shah's Story by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi from French to English.
Her own novels include Painting Water, Waterloo Waterloo, An Intolerable Burden, Song at Twilight, The House, Sylvia's Lot and The Gossips. The Entertaining Book is not a novel but a book about food and wine written with her husband.

Marriage and children

On 1 July 1961, as Lady Teresa Onslow, she married the author Auberon Waugh, eldest son of Evelyn Waugh. Auberon and Teresa Waugh had four children together: