"Silas Marner" author
I believe the answer is:
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">silas marner author</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I've seen this in another clue)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is all the clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for eliot that I've seen before include "One of two writers" , "Author of Adam Bede, d.1880" , "The Waste Land author" , "T S . . . . . wrote ''The Waste Land''" , "Practical Cats author" .)