The Separation is an 1830 novel by the British writer Lady Charlotte Bury, published in three volumes.

[1] It falls into the tradition of silver fork novels, popular at the time.

[3] Lord Fitzharris, a London dandy, falls in loves with and marries a penniless Frenchwoman Lenora while travelling on the Continent.

Realising that his marriage to a Catholic Frenchwoman will not be appreciated by his family, whose fortunes depend on him marrying a wealthy woman, he abandons Lenora and his young son in England after a failed attempt at persuading a friend to take her on as his mistress.

He then commits bigamy by marrying the daughter of a wealthy merchant living in Grosvenor Square.