At Oxford he probably shocked himself deeply by a sexual initiation which quickly became a series of homosexual affairs. It did not help matters when his first love for a woman, the eighteen-year-old Olivia Plunket Greene
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Evelyn Waugh
After his Oxford homosexual affairs and his unhappy love for Olivia Plunket Greene
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fell in love again, with a woman who shared his unisex Christian name and who became his first wife: Evelyn Florence Margaret Winifred Gardner
