Possible Clues:

• A female or a male author
• American aviator Earhart
• Renato's wife in Verdi's 'Un Ballo in Maschera'
• Southernmost of the Southeast's Sea Islands
• First name among aviators
• Social reformer Bloomer
• First name in aviatrices
• Aviation pioneer Earhart
• Eponymous heroine – later seen as a bloomer
• 2009 Hilary Swank movie