I'm sorry, but I am well read in literature and history and what you claim is 1005 falsehood.
Acid attacks started in the United Kingdom over 200 years ago, and reached a peak in the second half of the 19th century, when THOUSANDS of acid attacks occured, and it was well known.
It was more common for the attacker to be a woman, and research shows twice as many woman as men stood trial for it from 1837 to 1913.
If you ever read Arthur Conan-Doyle Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Illustrious Client, a woman throws acid on the face of a former lover.
In Graham Greene's Brighton Rock a man throws acid at a woman.
Sorry, you are just plain wrong.
OK. Thanks. I’ll tell Mark Steyn
It was called vitriolage. Interesting link...
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2017/09/13/acid-attacks-in-nineteenth-century-britain/