18. What do an American aviatrix lost at sea in 1937, an American feminist whose name is attached to women's clothing reform, and the central character in a series of children's books about a housemaid who takes everything literally, have in common?
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Amelia
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) was an aviator, author, teacher, public speaker and all-around feminist. She was pals with Eleanor Roosevelt. Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894) was a writer and publisher (of a newspaper called "The Lilly") which supported temperance, suffrage and women's rights. While she did not invent "bloomers", her personal adoption of them and support for them lent to their being associated with her name. Amelia Bedelia books have been written since 1963 by the originator Peggy Parish and, after she died in 1988, by her nephew Herman Parish. Similarly, they have been illustrated by Wallace Tripp, Fritz Siebel, Lynn Sweat, Lynne Avril and Barbara Siebel Thomas.
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