This will be a long thread about what may be an anachronism in War & Peace.
CW: self-harm, suicide
We read:
Natásha was very ill, having, as Márya Dmítrievna told him in secret, poisoned herself the night after she had been told that Anatole was married, with some arsenic she had stealthily procured. After swallowing a little she had been so frightened that she woke Sónya and told her what she had done. /1
