This document summarizes and compares real-life women to the character Lily Briscoe from Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. It profiles several pioneering Indian women who overcame societal obstacles: Savitribai Phule, who opened one of India's first schools for girls; Irom Sharmila, who conducted a 16-year hunger strike for human rights; and activists like Laxmi, Arunima Sinha, and Sabbah Haji who have advocated for women's issues. It also discusses athletes P.V. Sindhu and Dipa Karmakar who achieved firsts for India in Olympics and gymnastics. The author argues these women demonstrate the same independence, passion

1. PAPER 9 : MODERN LITERATURE
TOPIC : COMPARISON WITH LILY
BRISCOE WITH REAL LIFE LILY
BRISCOE. Name : Makwana Vijay K.
 Sem : 3
 Roll no. : 34
 Email Id : vijaykm7777@gmail.com
 Enrollment no. : 2069108420180035
 Submitted to : Department of English MKBU

2. “WOMAN CAN NOT WRITE AND CAN
NOT PAINT”
 Lily Briscoe prove that this quotation
is wrong.
 She resist against patriarchy.
 She is not like a Victorian women.
She represents modern women.
 She is not follow patriarchy
Unnecessarily.
 She follow his passion and
Independence.
 She is not pampering mail ego.

3. ARUNIMA SINHA :
 She was a national level volleyball
player who was pushed from a running
train by some robbers in 2011 while she
was resisting them. She lost his one lag.
 But his willpower is very strong that she
climbed Mount Everest.
 She achived Padma Shri & Tenzing
Norgay National Adventure Award
(2015/16) First Lady award (2018)

4. SAVITRIBAI PHULE :
 Savitribai Jyotirao Phule was an Indian social
reformer, educationalist and poet. She is
regarded as the first lady teacher of India. Along
with her husband, Jyotirao Phule, she played an
important role in improving women's rights in
India during British rule.
 Phule, along with her husband founded the first
girls‘ school in Pune ran by native Indians at
Bhide Wada in 1848. She worked to abolish the
discrimination and unfair treatment of people
based on caste and gender. She is regarded as
an important figure of the social reform
movement in Maharashtra.

5. IROM CHANU SHARMILA :
 Irom Chanu Sharmila, also known as
the “Iron Lady” is a civil rights activist,
political activist, and poet from the
Indian state of Manipur. On 5 November
2000, she began a hunger straike which
she ended on 9 August 2016, after 16
years of fasting. Having refused food
and water for more than 500 weeks, she
has been called “the world‘s longest
hunger striker”. On International
Women’s Day, 2014 she was voted the
top woman icon of India by MSN Poll.

6. LAXMI :
 Laxmi is an Indian campaigner with Stop Acid
Attacks and a TV host. She is an acid attack
survivor and speaks for the rights of acid attack
victims. She was attacked in 2005 at age 15.
Her story, among others, was told in a series on
acid attack victims by Hindustan Times.
 She has also advocated against acid attacks
through gathering 27,000 signatures for a
petition to curb acid sales, and taking that cause
to the Indian Supreme Court. Her petition led the
Supreme Court to order the central and state
governments to regulate the sale of acid, and
the Parliament to make prosecutions of acid
attacks easier to pursue.

7. SABBAH HAJI :
 Sabbah Haji is the Director of Haji
Public School, a not-for-profit school
established in 2009 by her family in
their ancestral village in the Doda
district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Sabbah was born in Dubai in 1982.
Her family shifted to Dubai in early
80's and then to Bangalore in 1997.
She returned to her native village,
Breswana, to run the Haji Public
School with her family, which school is
now the main focus of her life.

8. KIRAN BADI :
 Kiran Bedi (born 9 June 1949) is a retired
Indian Police Service officer, social activist,
former tennis player and politician who is
the current Lieutenant Governor of
Puducherry. She is the first woman to join
the Indian Police Service (IPS). She
remained in service for 35 years before
taking voluntary retirement in 2007 as
Director General, Bureau of Police
Research and Development.

9. P. V. SINDHU :
 Pusarla Venkata Sindhu (born 5 July 1995)
is an Indian professional badminton player.
She became the first Indian woman to win
an Olympic silver medal, and one of the
two Indian badminton players to ever win
an Olympic medal – other being Saina
Nehwal. Sindhu won silver in Women's
singles at Commonwealth Games 2018 .
She was also a silver medalist at the 2017
BWF World Championships and 2018 BWF
World Championships consecutively.

10. DIPA KARMAKAR :
 Karmakar first gained attention when
she won a bronze medal at the 2014
Commonwealth Games in Glasgow,
becoming the first Indian female
gymnast to do so in the history of the
Games. She also won a bronze
medal at the Asian Gymnastics
Championships and finished fifth at
the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics
Championships, both firsts for her
country.

11. CONCLUSION :
 Thus I have found real life Lily Briscoe.
 This all women achieve success.
 Defeat to society and get success.

12. WORK SITE :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbah_Haji
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arunima_Sinha
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laxmi_Agarwal
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savitribai_Phule
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irom_Chanu_Sharmila
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiran_Bedi
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._V._Sindhu
Resource person : Mahirpri Gowswami

13. Thank You……