Background
Teresa Waugh was born on February 26, 1940, in London, United Kingdom. She is a daughter of William Onslow, 6th Earl of Onslow, and Pamela Louisa Eleanor Dillon.
Stocker Rd, Exeter EX4 4PY, United Kingdom
In 1978, Teresa received a Bachelor of Arts degree with first class honors, specializing in French and Italian, from the University of Exeter.
Teresa and her husband Auberon Waugh.
Teresa at the wedding of her daughter Sophia.
(This work, translated by Teresa Waugh, traces the life of...)
This work, translated by Teresa Waugh, traces the life of Madame Du Deffand, and describes her relationships with French intellectuals from Voltaire to Montesquieu.
https://www.amazon.com/Madame-Du-Deffand-Her-World/dp/1567920012/?tag=2022091-20
1994
(Behind London’s Notting Hill Gate there lies a network of...)
Behind London’s Notting Hill Gate there lies a network of pretty little streets, known as Hillgate Village. It is here, that Annie comes to live with her daughter, Tamsin, when her sanctimonious husband, Henry, runs away with another woman.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gossips-Teresa-Waugh-ebook/dp/B017J0TF0E
1995
(The year is 1945, and people the world over are celebrati...)
The year is 1945, and people the world over are celebrating the end of the Second World War. But for Sydney Otterton, the end of hostilities means a return to a different kind of burden: the crumbling country estate he has inherited.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01AIJOP7G/?tag=2022091-20
2002
(Isabelle, a young girl on holiday with her family in Fran...)
Isabelle, a young girl on holiday with her family in France, disappears with a man she meets online - unaware of his troubled past and twisted sexual nature. Not knowing what's become of her, we follow Etienne as he drives frantically across the country and share in the long anguish of the missing girl's family as the police fail to find her. Meanwhile, a young woman's strangled body is found on a beach.
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2014
Teresa Waugh was born on February 26, 1940, in London, United Kingdom. She is a daughter of William Onslow, 6th Earl of Onslow, and Pamela Louisa Eleanor Dillon.
In 1978, Teresa received a Bachelor of Arts degree with first class honors, specializing in French and Italian, from the University of Exeter.
Waugh’s first novel, "Painting Water", was published in 1984. Its protagonist is Alice Taylor, a woman, whose life spans the book’s chapters. At the onset, she is a girl during World War II at the boarding school her father heads. Later, she marries, has children and is diagnosed with cancer. Looking back, Alice reflects upon her life and its meaning, and whether or not it was a fulfilling one.
"Waterloo, Waterloo" is the title of Waugh’s second novel, which won much praise upon its 1986 debut. The novel charts a dozen or so of the early retirement years of Jack, a former military officer, and his dysfunctional family. The "Waterloo" of the title refers to Jack’s obsession with toy soldiers, reconstructing battle scenes and Napoleonic history — the battle at Waterloo began the French emperor’s downfall. With his second wife Peggy, Jack has moved to Devon and opened a small shop and post office. Peggy, however, emerges as a less-than-ideal wife, a fanatical shopper, who eventually begins an affair with a driving school owner. Their daughter Josephine remains mostly away at school, but sometimes returns for a visit, during which she steals from her parents’ store. Peggy has a grown son, Nigel, who also comes to Devon to escape an unhappy relationship, but the reader learns, that his real problem involves unlawful perversion.
Waugh’s third novel, "An Intolerable Burden", again tells of a highly dysfunctional family. Its events revolve around a social worker, Claire, and her shiftless boyfriend, Francis. Afflicted with asthma, Francis lies in bed, smoking and watching television most of the day, entertaining schemes like constructing a model of Buckingham Palace out of match sticks. Claire’s mother worries about her, when not living in a fantasy world of her own or fretting about her other grown child, Roddy. The latter’s troubles with the law and Claire’s leave-taking of Francis form the core of the novel’s climax.
In her 1989 novel, "A Song at Twilight", Waugh reconstructs the life of another unremarkable character. Prudence Fishbourne is a retired, never-married schoolteacher in the process of writing her memoirs. In other waking moments, she finds herself attracted to her neighbor Eric, a widower, and recounts the rebelliousness of her niece Laurel. This teenager favors nudity, which has so incensed her father, that he wears blinders in the house, which in turn causes Laurel to shave her head. She also invents a new religion. Meanwhile, Prudence’s memoirs recount her dalliance with an unhappy student long ago, whom she introduced to her nephew. The nephew then began an affair with the student’s mother.
Waugh’s fifth novel, "Sylvia’s Lot", appeared in 1994. Its title character is a middle-aged divorcee with two alienated grown children. The son is a computer consultant. The daughter is a squatter with punk hair. Their father was a cleric, who drank and gambled. Their grandmother is a terror. Sylvia makes ends meet by serving as a housekeeper for Percy Hardcastle, another alcoholic. He pines for his daughter Jocelyn, a sophisticated type, who runs a lampshade shop, but it appears, that she has good reason to despise her father. Sylvia’s most redeeming relationship comes with the handyman on Percy’s estate, Wilf.
In "The Gossips", published in 1995, Waugh chronicles the lives of another hapless family, headed by a beleaguered middle-aged divorcee. Annie receives no genuine help from her friends, the "gossips" of the title, who detail her family’s increasing dysfunction in transcripts of telephone conversations Waugh inserts into the narrative. Annie’s daughter Tamsin — from her annulled marriage to Henry, an apparently devout Catholic — gets into trouble after becoming a telephone sex operator. Will, Annie’s boyfriend, provides little support. His job as a journalist lands him in the war-torn former Yugoslavia. Annie eventually finds an unlikely companionship with her neighbor Walter. The hearsay surrounding these characters and events reach a point, where the reader suspects, that little of the gossip may be reality.
Together with her husband, Auberon Waugh, Teresa also co-authored, "The Entertaining Book" (1986). Moreover, during her career, she translated the works of other authors from both French and Italian into English.
(This work, translated by Teresa Waugh, traces the life of...)
1994(Isabelle, a young girl on holiday with her family in Fran...)
2014(A social comedy of human idiosyncrasies, pathos and under...)
1989(A wonderful comedy of manners written by written by Lady ...)
1988(Behind London’s Notting Hill Gate there lies a network of...)
1995(A wonderful comedy of manners, written by Lady Teresa Ons...)
1999(The year is 1945, and people the world over are celebrati...)
2002(Translated by Teresa Waugh.)
1984Teresa married Auberon Waugh in 1961. He died in 2001. Their marriage produced four children — two sons and two daughters — Margaret Sophia Laura Waugh (mostly known as Sophia Watson), a writer; Alexander Evelyn Michael Waugh, a businessman, writer, critic and journalist; Daisy Louisa Dominica Waugh, a novelist, journalist and tarot reader; and Nathaniel Thomas Biafra Waugh.