Maybe George Eliot in rubbish dump? Yes and no (9)
I believe the answer is:
pseudonym
'maybe george eliot' is the definition.
(George Eliot was the pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans)
'rubbish dump? yes and no' is the wordplay.
'rubbish' indicates an anagram (a poor quality or rubbish spelling of the letters).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'dump'+'yes'='dumpyes'
'dumpyes' put after 'no' is 'nodumpyes'.
'nodumpyes' anagrammed gives 'PSEUDONYM'.
'in' is the link.
(Other definitions for pseudonym that I've seen before include "Pen name - use my pond (anag)" , "Fictitious identity" , "Lewis Carroll, for one" , "another title" , "name, adopted for writing purposes" .)