Possible Clues:

• Earhart who disappeared over the Pacific
• Aviatrix's forename
• First name in noted aviators
• First name in flying
• The girl for Shed (inter alia)
• Carson McCullers's Miss ___ Evans
• Bloomer after whom bloomers are named
• A male essayist or a female?
• 1751 Henry Fielding novel
• Famous aviator Earhart