Lady Teresa Lorraine Waugh (née Onslow) (born 26 February 1940) is a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

ist and translator.

Lady Teresa was born in 1940, the daughter of the 6th Earl of Onslow

William Onslow, 6th Earl of Onslow

William Arthur Bampfylde Onslow, 6th Earl of Onslow KBE MC TD, DL was a British peer and officer in the British Army.Onslow was the eldest son of Richard William Alan Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow and the Hon...

 and his first wife, Pamela (née Dillon). On 1 July 1961, she married the author, Auberon Waugh

Auberon Waugh

Auberon Alexander Waugh was a British author and journalist, son of the novelist Evelyn Waugh. He was known to his family and friends as Bron Waugh.-Life and career:...

. Lady Teresa has translated such works as Anka Muhlstein's A Taste For Freedom: The life of Astolphe de Custine

Marquis de Custine

Astolphe-Louis-Léonor, Marquis de Custine was a French aristocrat and writer who is best known for his travel writing, in particular his account of his visit to Russia in 1839 Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia...

(2000), Benedetta Craveri's Madame Du Deffand

Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand was a French hostess and patron of the arts.She was born at the Château de Chamrond, in Ligny-en-Brionnais, a village near Charolles of a noble family. Educated at a convent in Paris, she showed great intelligence and a sceptical, cynical turn of...

 and Her World (1994) and The Travels of Marco Polo

The Travels of Marco Polo

Books of the Marvels of the World or Description of the World , also nicknamed Il Milione or Oriente Poliano and commonly called The Travels of Marco Polo, is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Marco Polo, describing the...

(1984).

She has also written her own novels, including Painting Water (1983), Waterloo Waterloo (1985), Intolerable Burden (1987), Song at Twilight (1989), The House (2002), Sylvia's Lot (1994), The Entertaining Book (1986) and The Gossips (1995)

She has four children: Margaret Sophia Laura (1962 - ), Alexander Evelyn Michael

Alexander Waugh

Alexander Waugh is an English writer, critic, composer, cartoonist, record producer and television presenter. He is most known for his biography of Paul Wittgenstein published in 2009....

 (1963 - ), Daisy Louisa Dominica

Daisy Waugh

Daisy Louisa Dominica Waugh , known as Daisy Waugh, is an English journalist, travel writer, novelist and television presenter.She has also worked as a restaurant critic and as an agony aunt for The Independent...

(1967 - ), and Nathaniel Thomas Biafra (1968 - ).