Mary Ann Evans’s nom de plume (5)

I believe the answer is:

eliot

(Other definitions for eliot that I've seen before include "Four Quartets poet" , "thin material rejected" , "Middlemarch author" , "T.S. or George?" , "Female novelist" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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