Possible Clues:

• Willa Cather heroine
• Girl's name
• Willa Cather's 'My ___'
• Willa Cather title heroine
• Cather title character
• 1990s Surgeon General Novello
• "Mary, Queen of Scots" biographer Fraser
• "The Good Doctor" actress Thomas
• Not in favour of keeping on a female
• A new mixer drink not finished off by a woman