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His writing and political work strained their marriage while his unfaithfulness embittered Rosina ; in 1833 they separated acrimoniously and in 1836 the separation became legal.

Three years later, Rosina published Cheveley, or the Man of Honour ( 1839 ), a near-libellous fiction bitterly satirising her husband's hypocrisy.