Olivia Plunket Greene

Olivia Honor Mary Plunket Greene (7 March 1907 – 11 November 1958), together with her brothers Richard and David, was part of the Bright Young Things who inspired the novel Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh, who was Olivia's suitor.

Biography She was born on 7 March 1907, the daughter of Irish operatic baritone Harry Plunket Greene and his wife Gwendoline Maud Parry. James Knox described her older brothers, Richard and David, as a "wildly irresponsible pair who had never experienced any form of parental control".

Evelyn Waugh was at Oxford with David Plunket Greene and Richard Plunket Greene, fell in love with Olivia Greene and became a constant of the family. Waugh described the three siblings as being "tinged […] with melancholy". Waugh wrote about his attraction to Olivia in A Little Learning. According to Waugh, she was a tease who was available to everyone but him. It has been said that she is the model for the Honorable Agatha Runcible in Vile Bodies.