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When she
entered a room,
people would
stare and
sometimes
fall silent.
Kopper and Caro recount how Charles Marsh entered her life in 1931. While attending a dinner party in the Driscoll Hotel in Austin, they were very strongly attracted to each other, even though he, at 44, was over twice her age, and married to boot. Within weeks he left his wife of 11 years, Leona, and their two children, and made Alice his mistress, an arrangement that Alice desired and preserved for nine years, even while bearing him two children. They moved to New York City, Washington, and finally settled in Virginia at Longlea, with Alice designing and overseeing the creation of the manor house in 1932.
Longlea is said to be patterned after a similarly named manor house they had seen in Sussex County on a visit to England in the early 1930s. But, according to an historian recently contacted in Sussex by the writer, although there were a number of such manor houses, none were named Longlea.
Charles Marsh
Charles Marsh was bom in 1887, in Hartwell, Ohio, on the outskirts of Cincinnati. He attended Haverford College in Pennsylvania, then transferred and graduated from the University of Oklahoma. He became rich in the newspaper publishing trade, acquiring as many as 50 newspapers, and
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