Which details from the historical fiction piece "marie curie and the discovery of radioactivity" supports marie's factual statement?

during a particularly rigorous winter, it was not unusual for the water to freeze in the basin in the night; to be able to sleep i was obliged to pile all my clothes on the bedcovers. in the same room i prepared my meals with the aid of an alcohol lamp and a few kitchen utensils. these meals were often reduced to bread with a cup of chocolate, eggs or fruit.
when she was growing up in russian-occupied poland, even to study science was forbidden.
when marie arrived in paris in 1891, she studied physics at the greatest university in europe, the sorbonne. but how poor she was!
a moment later, people passing by the school of physics and chemistry were treated to a sight not often seen on the fashionable streets of paris in the early 1900s: a bareheaded young woman in a laboratory smock, ripping eagerly into the pile of heavy sacks and burying her hands in . . dirt?
no one, the curies included, had ever seen this element. still, the husband-and-wife team had given it a name: radium.